What is this world?

Note: This will be totally disorganized. Most likely, will barely make any sense.

Tonight, I decided a few things. I can't really express them through a simple blog, especially one that was shaped for what I decided I almost completely oppose: education and our society's reliance on it. It's a waste. I believe that there are only a few necessary thing for children to be taught through a formal education. I think math should be taught, but only basics, maybe up to a 9th grade level. English should be taught throughout an education, but it will be learned just from living in a society that speaks that language. Lastly, a course or two on history or governement. Everything else should be left up to the child. The child's life is lived after his or her education, not during it. Most lives are centered around one or two paths. Usually a career, maybe family. A career is something that the person should be interested in and should enjoy, not simply for the money and being able to survive. Many doors are not opened throughout a person's formal education. There are plenty of students I know that have no clue what they want to do with their live. Possibly because they don't have the opportunities. School is so curriculim based and formatted. Kids have to do this, do that, and rarely have the freedom to do what they want. And when tehy do have the freedom, they don't know where to go. I know, that I personally, am utterly lost and confused when a teacher assigns a project with near to none or no guidelines. I think this is because we're used to living everything to structured. I don't like structure. Let life be lived day by day. Nowdays, I feel society has shaped the world to revolve around money and education. Kids must go to school everyday by law in the United States, they must take certain courses to graduate. They must take and do well on certain tests to proceed further in their education. To get a decent job, students must go to the increasingly expensive college to get a degree, that by the time one is 30, probably means almost nothing. By the time I'm ready to go to college, it'll probably cost me upwards or $30,000 a year, unless I'm to choose to go to a small rural college or a college in my state. During the four plus years of college I'll end up writing dozens of essays, reading dozens of books, and sitting in a chair watching to a few teachers talk for dozens of hours. For $30,000 a year. What kind of education is this anyway? You'll learn plenty of thing you'll most likely never need, or things that are totally specified towards one field. If you choose to stray from that field it looks like more sitting, writing, and reading. Students should be offered more courses that open more doors so that they can find something or some things that they want to do. Or at least show them opportunities to find something that interests them. And this whole reliance on a piece of paper? A diploma. A degree. I don't care. But that's all anyone else cares about it seems. I could probably drop out of high school with two weeks left, and those nearly four years would count for nothing. Don't have the diploma or degree, don't have a job. Don't have a job, don't have money. Don't have money, well then, you don't have a life. You can't live, right? What is this? Live life how you want. Why should it be so formatted and enforced by society. People who don't follow these steps are looked down upon. I want to live my life differently. I want to live through experiences. I want to meet people. I want to remember something important, not the day Christopher Columbus was born or sailed the ocean blue. What all does his discovery of America, the land of the free, matter if you're just to live ensalved by society? There are pelnty of ways to learn, that are equally, if not better than from writing, reading, and sitting. Sure, you can learn how people of today in Africa or South America get by without electronics, or without water. But why not simply experience it for yourself? Go to Africa or South America. Help them. Meet the people. Experience. Experience. Experience. I'd much rather experience something than just be someone feeling pitiful for these people just knowing of their suffering and not doing anything. I somewhat know what I want to do with my life. A rough sketch. But there's something in the way. Society. I can't be an individual. I have to go to school for 13 years, and pretty much an extra four for college. I have to "study" certain subjects without any true knowledge of them. I don't have time to do what I really want to. I have to be focused on my education, or otherwise I won't be successful in life, right? Because I won't have money, right? And I won't have fun because I can't afford it? Life like this isn't worth the time. I don't want to put up with this. I want to experience the world. I want to meet new people. I want to understand new cultures. I want to travel. I want to show people. The world isn't just all about being society's "successful". Do something with your life.

Note: Other countries with entirely different education systems have higher ranked education systems that us here in great old 'Murica. Because we're just the best and always right. #upcomingdocumentaryproject

I went to El Salvador this past summer. And it was one of the best experiences of my life. No, I cannot call it my second home, or my second family, or anything of the sort. I was there for nine days. But those nine days were more real than a year of school. I met the most incredible people with the best perspectives on life. I'm sad to say I can't be more like them. These people are so much happier with so much less. They live life, they're not concerned with all sine functions or greek mythology or how C4H8+O2 reacts to form CO2 and H2O. They don't care. They care about what matters. The experience was so unique and so much different than I had expected. Something so unreal seeming at first. Many people are totally unaware of other people and places despite their great education received through the education we are forced to have by the laws we have here. And no, my experience there was not directly affected by knowing some of them withstood a civil war in their country that I may have learned about in a world  history class. Either way, they were happy. These five-year-old kids likely have no clue of what the war was like or what the outside world is like. But they know how to live. They're not completely influenced by how their society looks. We would see their tin-sheet houses and be amazed at how they live. That's what they're used to. And they're fine. Without this entire fiasco run by our government and society. They can manage without a top notch education, diploma and degree and $50,000 a year salary. Not only can they manage without it, but they're happier, too. I wish people could all experience this. And live like this. I wish our society was more open. Life for us here oesn't need to be how it is, and may easily be better if it were shaped entirely different.

I simply do not agree with the education and ideas surrounding it here in the United States. I don't believe they offer enough freedom to truly do what you love. I don't think they allow people to live how life should be lived. It's only right for some people, not all, yet all people are forced to conform. This is only one student's perspective, but I strongly believe it.