Our education system

I wrote this on a forum few days ago. The topic was, does our education make us a better person.

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I feel we place too much emphasis on rewards like prize wages, loud cars and landed houses. We forget that those are rewards, not goals. They are supposed to come after you have put in the hard work to achieve your dreams.

And yes, I said dreams. The ambitions you held when you were young and ignorant. The essay you wrote in Primary School about "When I grow up, I want to be..."

Some of you see dreamers as unrealistic people. Some of you see dreamers as aliens in our society. Some of you see dreamers as folks with a missing screw in their heads.

And you must be right because you no longer dream.

Dreamers are looking for a smack of reality in their face. They don't know enough of the world, and those who know are so desperate to share their knowledge of what doesn't work.

I'm quite sure that's what Steve Jobs heard when he insisted on making PCs in his garage. IBM told him there's no market. HP told him to wake up.

It's like our education system.

It teaches our children to memorize the facts of yesterday, but doesn't teach them to learn the knowledge of tomorrow.

It teaches our children the hindsight to accept reality, but doesn't teach them the courage to change it.

It teaches our children to keep in line with the system, but doesn't teach them to keep the faith in themselves.

Our education system works too well. We see less and less dreamers everyday. A little bit more, and we'll murder them all.
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