/sci/ - Science & Math

This was when I first began to realize how broken education is. Everything we did in high school (joining clubs, working for grades, doing sports, generally conforming to a college's definition of "well-rounded") was all a lie because we didn't teach tennis because we genuinely were interested in it, but because we wanted to uphold some type of false identity to present to colleges. Granted, there are people who actually do math competitions, science fairs, sports, leadership, student body, etc. because they are actually interested in those subjects, but there are probably substantially fewer people like that. Most people (from what I've seen) do these things because they want to look good for colleges, and would give that subject up without hesitation if colleges didn't see it on their portfolio. So their motivation for joining that club, or working for an A in English, isn't because they're interested in that topic, but because they want to look good for colleges. Why do we want to go to good colleges in the first place? Because we are force-fed the idea that if we didn't get into a good college, we wouldn't be able to find a job and have shitty lives. And to some extent, this is true.

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