".....I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work.
But I contend that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker. While others would come to class without their homework done because they were reading about an interest of theirs, I never missed an assignment. While others were creating music and writing lyrics, I decided to do extra credit, even though I never needed it. So, I wonder, why did I even want this position? Sure, I earned it, but what will come of it? When I leave educational institutionalism, will I be successful or forever lost? I have no clue about what I want to do with my life; I have no interests because I saw every subject of study as work, and I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning. And quite frankly, now I'm scared.
And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. We are not enlivened by an educational system that clandestinely sets us up for jobs that could be automated, for work that need not be done, for enslavement without fervency for meaningful achievement. We have no choices in life when money is our motivational force. Our motivational force ought to be passion, but this is lost from the moment we step into a system that trains us, rather than inspires us.
We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school. We are all very special, every human on this planet is special, so aren't we all deserving of something better of using our minds for innovation, rather than memorization, for creativity, rather than futile activity, for rumination rather than stagnation? We are not here to get a degree, to then get a job, so we can consume industry-approved placation after placation. There is more, and more still....."
that is so true. i mean, pendidikan di negara kita hanya menargetkan nilai tinggi dalam pelajaran. belajar hanya karna ngejar nilai akibatnya kreativitas yang penting jadi tidak terasah. sistem pendidikan seperti ini sebenarnya membuat kita tumbuh jadi anak "penurut" yang disuruh ngerjain ini itu (PR dan tugas) ketimbang jadi anak kreatif. saya tidak akan munafik karna jujur saja saya juga belajar itu untuk ngejar nilai. biasanya saya baru belajar jika ada ulangan saja oleh karena itu, setelah ulangan apa yang sudah yang pelajari akan terlupakan begitu saja. mungkin jika sistem pendidikan yang ada saat ini bukanlah sistem kejar nilai seperti yang selalu ditekankan oleh guru-guru dan sekolah kita (murid) juga mungkin tidak akan merasa tertekan melainkan malah enjoy. ini mungkin saja karna jika sistem pendidikan saat ini itu seperti 'ya sudah anak-anak kalian pasti lelah ya habis ulangan pertemuan kemarin, hari ini free deh' pasti kita para murid jadi senang kan? daripada baru semenit masuk kelas udah 'yak. hari ini kita udah bab 5 ya! lingkaran blablabla'.
karena, orang terbaik belum tentu menjadi orang tersukses. sukses dalam hidup itu hal yang lain lagi.
karena, orang terbaik belum tentu menjadi orang tersukses. sukses dalam hidup itu hal yang lain lagi.
