And does this system really work, if we followed their system every step of the way what would we actually achieve? If you went to college for a hundred years, with a perfect attendance and rigorous application to your studies, would you really be enlightened and wise, and a fuller human being, at the other end? Really what is the point in sitting in these rooms for years, scrawling hurried notes, remembering fact after fact, rules of grammar and syntax, the historical facts of what war was started by what tyrant and when, or learning over and over that two add two equals four and therefore the universe is the way it is. Just sitting on your bum, learning specialised rules for the formal understanding of a very specialised subject so you only have to do what you're told and jump through hoops in a standardised way (in the form of an examination) to be rewarded with a's or b's and other little formulas. An A is not always a sign that you have understood well, but merely a sign that you have seemed as if you understood well in a very formal, standardised way. You can have the best understanding in the world, but if your organisational and presentation abilities aren't up to scratch, you'll still fuck up in an exam. I'm proud to say that i failed every exam i ever sat, one after the other, until i just refused to sit them any more. Maybe education is just a formal contrivance for occupying the time of young people and training them as a workforce, and isn't meant to be in the business of teaching them one useful thing: The only useful things i ever learned from a teacher were the mechanical rules of reading and writing. By the time i reached high school i began to be filled with the babble of science and grammar and mathematics and algebra, which, taken together, served absolutely no purpose, nor did one good or benificent result arise from it.