{"id":2030,"date":"2010-08-05T21:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2010-08-05T21:57:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T04:57:05","slug":"todays-inspiration-school-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=2030","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Inspiration: School Sucks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPhoto courtesy of Liese-Lotta<\/a><\/p>\n

Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling in Graduation Speech<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

(h\/t Sign of the Times<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am now accomplishing that goal. 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 contest 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole speech here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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