I like learning; I just don't like school...

I feel I speak on behalf of many people my age (20) out there: I have fallen out of favor with today's education system. I'm not lazy; I don't think I'm too cool for school, but the educational system undeniably makes me unhappy and lazy when learning subjects that interest me. In the realm of knowledge, the realm of the pursuit of understanding to unknown degrees, why do I/we feel limited, constrained? Why does, for example, Biological Engineering (not my field of study fyi) not jump out the page like 3rd grade science? It should; shouldn't it? So, how do we upgrade our brain matter for an age in which it may matter?

Fact, life is not only school. Fact, balance creates positive harmony in all facets of life. Why is school, mainly college/university life, an aberration? School dominates our lives; many simply don't have a life outside campus. This is suffocating and ultimately doesn't prepare one for the real world. If education wishes to inspire students to follow their dreams in a world which is limitless, why constrain them in a world of limitations? I went to a private boarding high school. Oh wow! Visions of a small Oxford in which one dreams of changing the world spring to mind. How wrong you are my friend; for how can one dream of changing a world that one has no contact with? Break down the walls between society and universities, between society and students. College is not a period of liminality.

I took a year off before enrolling in a university. I learned more in that single year, without school, then I learned in four years of high school. Ummmm, wait, no, how, please contain yourself.

The classroom consists of four relationships. They are: student-student, student-professor, student-subject, and groups-subject. Education is best when all of these relationships are utilized. Even with the exclusion of one of these relationships, education's effectiveness suffers profoundly. By breaking down the walls, class no longer is regulated to classroom. What this does inevitably is create individualism centralized around the school subject. There is personal interaction with the subject and students are allowed to make what they will with it. By taking a year off, I eliminated the middle man, the teacher, when accessing my interests. A teacher shouldn't be a middle man.

I could blab for many a more paragraphs, but have homework. Things change, it's about time education followed the natural progression of things.