Class lectures
Class work
Homework
Quizzes
Tests
Exams
Re-make tests
SAT'S
ACT'S
all seem to determine my, including other millions of students, lives.
Funny. I didn't know your future depended on several different pieces of papers.
Funny how if your answer is metaphorically speaking "outside the box" then it is considered wrong
Funny how if your answer is wrong, that automatically means you're not "educated" enough
Funny how you'll study for a test... no....CRAM for a test and just moments after taking it, you forget
Funny how schools tell us to get a "good night's rest" but gives us the overload of homework, even if taken regular classes, can amount to eight hours and more.
Funny how they tell us to be creative, yet if we get a bad score on the SAT's that nonetheless means we weren't created for that "college life" or to be "educated"
Funny how teachers complain about our low test scores and secretly think it's because we were out there partying, smoking a joint, getting drunk...ignoring our responsibilities...when actually we were studying for our other exams...in our room with a cup of coffee...frenzy, almost considering to drop out because the stress isn't just stress...it's become anxiety
And don't forget that day you didn't even have time to study because
When you were actually forced to do over time at work
When you were actually got held back because of sports and extra-curricular activities
You weren't the one smoking pot, but your mom and dad who just don't give a (fill in the blank)
When we were just so stressed, we gave up...
But let's look at the evidence
Jesus - a carpenter but known as the Savior of the world, the joint-heir to the all knowing God...known literally as God...would be considered uneducated
Plate, Socrates, Aristotle...all questioned what seemed to be the facts...known to be the greatest men of knowledge...yet they thought outside of the perimeters of man-made tests
Joseph Smith...a farmer boy who barely could write...founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
So...now what do you say?
Is that student who just graduated from Harvard more educated then the student who studies grocery cashiering?
We all have our talents and skills.
So why do they test us on how much we know about quantum physics and overly extensive equations that you most likely won't use if, for example, you aspire to be a teen fiction author?
Now I'm not saying that school should be demolished and has no gain. But it's the system that is flawed entirely.
To all the adults out there. What do you remember more? Your favorite subject or the ones that were a bore?
So before you criticize your child for failing math...did you notice they excel in politics and history facts? Or music and the arts? Dance or step? Or maybe just being a parent that stays home?
Because it looks to me when Jesus called his disciples they might as well be fools. Fishers, no scholars. Yet they wrote the bible...one of the most discussed books in when it comes to the conversations of "scholarly" men.
Now, schools have their benefits no doubt. But to be great and educated, school is not the key.
What YOU know you love and exceed, that's where your knowledge begins.
So just like how runners are educated in running.
Artists are educated in art.
Photographers are educated in photos.
There is no "right" job.
There is no "right" career path.
So don't quite school. That's not what I'm saying. I'm trying to say, don't let your exam scores override your drive to dream. Don't let your test scores determine who you're going to be.
1 Cor 3:19-21 --- Let no one be under any illusion over this. If any man among you thinks himself one of the world's clever ones, let him discard his cleverness that he may learn to be truly wise. For this world's cleverness is stupidity to God. It is written: "He that taketh the wise in their craftiness", and again, "The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain." So let no one boast of men.
Amen.
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