I agree wholeheartedly with Bud. With all due respect, your view on education is short-sighted and immature.

My uncle graduated high school with a 1.8 GPA. A C- average. He went to school at a community college and earned roughly a 2.3 GPA there. A C+ average.

He now works at Google, writing code and doing something that he loves. He makes more than $500,000 a year, has his own family, and lives in New York.

I asked him about his schooling after reading your comment, and he agreed with Bud. School teaches you things that you will never need to know, but very little about how to get by in life and become a good, contributing member of society. For example, in my junior year in high school, I can currently point out that on the day he was beheaded, King Charles I of England was wearing a green shirt, but I couldn’t tell you how to start looking for a job.

I always thought grades were important, so I always kept them high, but while doing so I learned they are basically a load of garbage, and having two parents that work in education I learned to hate the system even more, because they have become robots, controlled entirely by it, not understanding what life is like outside the world of school.

Grades do not mean anything, they never will, if for some crazy reason I end up in a position where I’m hiring I won’t give the S*** about someones GPA, I’ll personally interview the candidates.

Another thing I would like to add, that may have been slightly touched upon in the article is the fact that school is not about learning, it is abot placing kids in a group- either smart or dumb, and basing this off of regurgitated information that is immediately forgotten, and is useless outside of the school walls.

Teachers need to teach, not grade.

Homework is meant to blackmail those who don’t want to live a life dominated by school, and to “reward” those who fall into the social norm. Society is becoming robotic, and that ruins the unique life experience of the INDIVIDUAL.

I just finished ranting about how terrible my professor is, and the lack of enthusiasm in his method of teaching the class. We meet once a week and he lets us out an hour and a half early every time.

At the end of the day I realized: we are in control of our grade; what we learn from the class and how; and not to depend on a professor who doesn’t care as much as the students care.

It’s sad that professors like this are allowed to teach on a college level — especially to those who are interested and enrolled into a particular major.

The school system is a joke, regardless of what town or state you’re from.

It’s our job to educate ourselves, to better ourselves, and to create our own opportunities. No more relying on the professors who I thought were living up to their title.

Ray Bradbury said, “I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories. ”

He also said, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

Too true today. People skim through the summaries to pass the test, and never understand the delight of literature. I hope to change that habit, one student at a time.