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by delusional
1334 days ago
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When challenged on why we had to follow rules that real writers often ignored, such as those "arbitrary standards" you hate, he responded: "They can break the rules because they already know them by heart. You need to learn them." That stuck with me. I firmly believe that writing essays about boring drudgery is a necessity to develop the skill required to write essays about what's important to you. School is not about doing great work. It's about learning the tools which you can use to do great work. School does not ask you to do novel research, and so it doesn't ask you to write novel essays. |
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We have no compatible ideas if you insist upon this being the case. School is not "training for real life", it is real life.
The thought that it's appropriate and desirable to monopolize the bulk of the time, mental health, and attention of young people in order to keep them from attempting anything of consequence while they "prepare to do more work later" is deleterious to society.
(It is also not true that real writers know the rules by heart and choose to break them for their own effect. That implies that there is a real set of rules that people agree on and that every great writer is capable of producing a standardized set of writing that follows these rules. In fact, most great writers take great pains to tell personal stories of failure in school due to an inability and unwillingness to comply with their teachers, and this has been true since antiquity.)