It's May 05, 2024, 06:13:44 PM
In the U.S., we have laws that kind of put that kind of thinking into effect. The standardized testings and the No Child Left Behind act prefer to have everybody slow down instead of expressing their knowledge.
as long as you ain't the one who's running things you will have to adapt to whichever system you're in, whether you admit it or not.
Well, everybody will think "rebelling" is an euphemism for you not being capable. If you get a bad GPA people will just think you suck. Apart from making an idealistic point (that only few people, at best, will notice) I don't see a reason to do so. I say you wait until your emotions cooled off before you make a decisive decision.
That's the sad dilemma: acquiring knowledge vs. beating the system. It's becoming almost impossible to do both now. For example, I WANT to take a Biochemistry course this fall. Not only will I gain a lot of valuable knowledge from it, but it would give me a head start when I begin graduate school. The downside: it is highly likely to lower my GPA because of the difficulty of the course, thus limiting my options for medical school. I've been advised by most people I've talked to not to take it because it will hurt my numbers. How retarded is that?
In the big tests with hundreds of people participating, it is always annoying to me that eloquent writing is useless or even hurtful because they will just look for certain things to be mentioned and move on...
I feel what you're saying. The thing is though, I didn't write bullshit just to get the grade, I demonstrated that I fully understood the topic. Some people wrote bullshit and didn't understand the topic at all, but just because they only wrote a little bit, they got full credit for the assignment. She never even specified the length of the paper. My only gripe is that I proved that I learned something, but I was punished for it and not given a fair reason, but fuck it I'm over it: life isn't fair.