The academic crunch draws ever closer, and we start becoming more panicky, more desperate. things which we once thought were wrong suddenly seem much less so; after all, desperate times call for desperate measures, don't they? one by one, we start to abandon what we deem to be less important, with the reasoning that we shouldn't even be concerning ourselves with such trivial matters in the first place. after all, what could be more important than the A levels, right? who cares about integrity, or respect, or the fundamental duty of students to attend school and all it's lessons? how could anyone consider for even the slightest moment that any of that could be more important than getting that laminated slip of paper? i mean, come on, it has that logo printed on it. that LOGO!
our lives are interwoven into those around us, and every action we take causes a ripple effect on the people we interact with. don't forget that for every useless lesson we skip, there's a teacher wondering what he or she did wrong to fail to instill a sense of responsibility in us.
call me idealistic, but i still believe that character development is more important than academic development. in a world of people, we don't survive by interacting with numbers or graphs, but by interacting with people. don't forget that no matter what, we are people first and academics second, and the only way to succeed in this world of people is to possess the very same qualities which we demonstrate a complete lack of when we throw all our moral values to the ground and hit the books.
but at the end of the day, when you can see the significant behind the trivial, that is when you have truly opened your eyes. when you see the usefulness of the useless lessons, that is when you know that 12 years in the education system have not been in vain.
call me idealistic, but dare you claim that idealism is wrong?
