Blog on studying

3.) Is what you learn at school really connected with your life?

No, what you learn at school isn't in any way connected to your life but school is connected to your life.What you learn in School is like similar to a job where you attend, work and leave. What you learn at your job has nothing to do with your actual life unless your job is your life. At University I have 6 classes in everyone of them I don't learn one thing that connects with my life. Any student can go through their everyday schedule and reflect back on what they learned and notice it doesn't connect anyway to their personal, physical or spiritual life.

When I refer to personal life they usually are referring to live at home or events that connect to school. Now if I took a few of my classes such as algebra, ancient Greece and chemistry then compared them to the things I learn at home it would not compare. At my house I learn cooking skills and many of life lessons that would not ever be taught in a classroom. While sitting in chemistry I learn useless material that won't connect to my life. This is the same for physical and your spiritual life. Because what people learn in school does not connect to our life its brings up questions like why do you go to school. Many teenagers my age believe that the only reason they attend school is because their parents force them to learn but there are more reasons than that.

From interviews, written essays and listening to adults I have come noticed that what you learn in school is useless but the outcome of succeeding in those classes and knowing the useless information to the best of your ability benefits in the end. In the end you will be able to go to college or receive a job and so on. The opposite side of all this is that some people drop out because they think what they learned in school didn't connect to their life and I have commonly heard from these people "I wished I would have finished high school or college." I noticed after listening to people say this constantly that they don't want to attend,work and leave because what they learn at the school is connected to their life but because of the benefits you receive from it in the end.

To conclude, what students learn in school does not connect to their life in any way wither it is personal, physical or spiritual. If I took one of my classes and compared the lessons you could tell that how many electrons in a hydrogen molecule is not going to help me in life. Lastly, high school drop-outs, college drop-outs and people who have made it through both can agree to the fact that what you learn in school does not compare to life. The only reason they attended school or wanted to re-attend was because the benefits or outcome of it all.