The Reason I Hate School Is Because I Love To Learn

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I hated school and every subject that didn’t include lunch, gym or recess.

My two least favorite were reading and writing. I couldn’t understand why people loved books so much. I couldn’t fathom reading for fun because to me it was torture.

Writing was even worse. Anything over a paragraph was cruel and unusual punishment. Who would want to cramp their wrist writing a never ending wall of text about a dull subject they could care less about? Certainly not me.

But it was only after grade school that I grew to love reading and writing. Only after grade school did I pick up books that aroused interest and blogged about topics that did the same.

It was only after all that schooling that I discovered that I didn’t hate learning, in fact I loved it. What I hated was school. I hated school because I loved to learn. I loved to be curious, to think critically and solve problems.

However school didn’t encourage any of this. In fact it stripped these things away from me. Instead I had to be curious outside of school. I had to think critically on my own and solve my dilemmas all by myself.

But who’s going to teach the future generations to do the same? Who’s going to encourage them to be curious, think critically and solve problems? The…