by Kurt Mckelvey

Created on: June 22, 2007   Last Updated: March 04, 2011

One of the main reasons why teenagers are not interested in learning is mainly because of the standardization of education, and the homogenization of the media. This is not the ONLY reason, as this is a complicated situation. But i can say with a high degree of certainty that a large part of the problem is that the powers that be, do not want the youth to want to learn. They want the next generation of slaves to think as little as possible about the situations and circumstances that they will be subjected to. Think as little as possible about the government and what it is doing in the world. Think as little as possible about the systems that control us. I know I'm spouting off a lot of crazy rhetoric, so I will subdue my ranting.

Anyway, back in the nineteen eighties, I think it was 1984, but i may be wrong... back just before my kindergarten years, congress passed legislation that standardized education, and made it so that every school that wanted government funding had to do a certain test at the end of the year. And this test was on specific things: math, history, general knowledge, whatever. But this test was standardized, meaning that if ANY school wanted money from the government, then they would have to change their class material and lessons to accommodate the standardized test. Meaning that classes could not teach to accommodate the students, but classes had to teach to accommodate the standardized test, resulting in a the gradual loss of interest as the schools catered towards the students interests less.

Beyond that, schools are MEANT to be places of learning. But I think that there is a scheme by the powers that be, to keep the youth stupid. (I know "the powers that be" is a VERY vague and ambiguous term, and I wish that I had a more specific thing to put my finger on but...) One way to accomplish keeping the youth stupid is to turn schools into an institution which actually teaches the students to HATE learning, HATE work, HATE anything that requires effort or critical thinking. Basically, despite some GREAT teachers that are still out there, I feel that most schools have been turned into places that teach kids to hate learning.

Social interaction is the greatest concern among most students in school. Status and popularity often mean more to kids than homework and progress do. So basically, the schools are inadvertently teaching kids to care more about status than learning. Not directly, but indirectly. If you are going to school, the last thing

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