peanut butter w/ apples

The intelligent writing, or drawing some might say, of this video was one of the most clever things I have ever seen. The whole idea of the video was to bring about a reformation in the world of education, and what better way to educate your audience than to use the educational technique that you are advertising. As I looked around the classroom at my peers watching this somewhat boring lecture I noticed something, they were all LEARNING. What a concept! High school students were actually getting something out of being entertained with multi-media.  Now, ill be the first to admit that the spoken word in the video sounded as if it would burn my ear off with its boring, monotonous sound; however, once put together with the fun drawings and comics, the words began to come alive. Just as the speaker had been stating, “people learn material through seeing and doing not through hearing and reading”. Sadly this goes completely against the form of education chosen by the far superior modern educators we find in today’s schools. These days it seem as if a teacher’s only job is to get the students to sit down, shut up, and engage in boring information being forcibly shoved onto them by whatever corrupt state they happen to reside. This I can tell you (first-hand I might add) is the WORST way to learn. The information being thrown at us is so large and so stupidly inapplicable that our teenage minds only feel the need to retain it for two or three days while we wait for the up coming test to be over, then we drop everything we have “learned” and go on to trying to fulfill the next state requirement, doing any and everything we can to maintain an acceptable grade for college. The current system we have is pumping kids through schools without even giving them a chance to learn anything correctly. We, as students, are only going through the motions, being used like pawns to continue the functions of society without being given a chance to offer imagination or creativity to it’s success. This is much like the situation found in A Brave New World. This society’s main slogan goes “everyone works for everyone else”. This is crap! Where is my right to be a little selfish and look after myself rather than put my life in the hands of some reject in a wife-beater. This is the society we are becoming and I don’t like it. We are quickly heading in the direction of everyone working for everyone else, and I choose to rightfully put all the blame on the schools. We aren’t learning anything new in classrooms except how to silently use others and cheat off of one another. As for our future as a country, I’m scared because I know that old habits tend to die-hard.