by Travis Rent

Created on: July 09, 2009   Last Updated: July 11, 2009

There are certain qualities a person must meet in order to qualify as one of our most respected occupations. Being a teacher requires certain understandings of the nature of knowledge and the difficult task of passing it on. Knowledge, being an ever-changing idea of perfection, should be appreciated by both the teacher and the student; as a result of our lack of appreciation, people are teaching with over-confidence and learning without the motivation to actually learn. The educational quality of our present age system has dropped due to the necessity of teachers and the idea that intelligence should be rated.

The education system of today does more to keep us bored, and to keep us within certain boundaries, than to actually teach anything. From preschool to junior high we make an attempt to excel. Once we get our GPA education becomes an all-out war against those competent enough to steal our placement on the standardized scale. When asked why a person does well in school there are only so many answers that the student will reply with. For the most part, the student will stare as if the answer should be obvious, but if any answer is given, it will be focused on the desire to go to college, get a good job, or follow the safest known path to making money and living at the height of the standardized social hierarchy. The reasoning of our generation is assaulted by the question, "how much money can I make doing this?"

It is a common misconception that school makes people smart. What makes people smart is curiosity, discovery, and the will to understand. School teaches how to memorize and regurgitate information. Without experience to accompany the things learned, all the information memorized will inevitably be forgotten. Without sacrifice, we would have nothing.-Fight Club. Be it a long journey or short conversation with an understanding person, one can come to higher perspectives and levels of understanding. It takes a strong self-reflective personality to truly teach someone. As good college professors hopefully know: one can't actually be taught, only guided in the right direction.

The social stance of a person determines the quality of education their children will receive. The very idea of making a certain quality of education exclusive does more to separate people than to make young geniuses thrive. Our curriculum is determined by the federal government, a group of people that certainly do not know everything; therefore, they should not have the

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