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The motivation problem isn't the school's fault, it's yours. You choose to not want to learn.
Why does anyone buy this bullshit?
Yes. I always have and always will because I always loved learning for its own sake.
Learning is what gets you through hard times when you don't know where your next meal is coming from.
Learning helps you get your next meal.
There is no hierarchy of needs. Your needs shift and change over time, and overlap most of the time.
Source: 40 years of life experience, survived abuse as a child and as an adult, escaped poverty and homelessness, and am now on track to return to college and own my own businesses, none of which would be possible without my education and desire to learn
Oh yeah I totally needed to learn about what a writer might have thought 200 years ago while writing EVERY SINGLE PAGE of his book, when I already knew that I wanted to do something with technology.
But we didnt have enough teachers for biology and physics and chemistry, so instead we got more literature.
I wonder where I (and our whole society) would be now if schools werent meant for preparing kids to transition into work, but instead about getting the full potential out of every kid.
Im German and I did learn English in school, but not really, because it was taught in a way that made me lose interest immediately.
I actually learned English when I started to watch Minecraft Youtubers in English because they had some interesting contraptions in their videos or something like that (Its been a while, I dont know exactly why I started watching them)
If you think studying literature is to teach you literature, you're sorely mistaken. Similar to if you think you study mathematics to learn mathematics.
You are taught literature so you can better communicate with other people. What is the author's intention with this passage? What are they trying to say? What might their motivations be? Now apply this to a letter from a potential business partner or a politician's tweet and you might begin to see how what you were taught becomes relevant.
Why are you taught grammar? Who cares whether you use the Oxford comma or not? Who has the need to know what mood, theme, and figurative language are? Apply this in the context of trying to write a professional email to your boss or trying to tell a story to engage other people, and maybe you'll start to see that it wasn't worthless.
Why do we need to know the way to prove that the angles of a triangle add up to 180? Who needs to know the Quadratic formula and how to apply it? It's so you know how to think rationally and apply logic rigourously, so you don't fall into familiar logical traps that we see on the evening news and the Internet every day.
Why do you need to know how cells reproduce? Why do we need to know how the pH scale works? It's so when people on Facebook claim that vaccines erase your DNA or that alkaline water prevents cancer, you'll know better.
Not taking enough literature and humanities is how we end up with Elon. Every little wannabe engineer who thinks they shouldn't have to take a humanities course should be smacked in the face by a physics demonstration.
"learn"? We are talking about schools, you know.
Oh no, everyone else was, in fact, learning while you and the other whiners were either sleeping or smoking weed in the bathroom thinking they're above it all and that doing what everyone else was doing was beneath them.