Amelia: Clara, do you blog about Bam like, twice a day?
Me: Bam? Not quite...
Bam: It's my dream.
We were talking about the sad state of affairs that is our education system. My school is great and I love it, but the way high schools work these days is very weird.
A senior wrote an essay about a Faulkner speech and ended it saying that we, as students, are more focused on getting the grade (because grades lead to college, college leads to a job, jobs lead to money, and money leads to happiness) than actually appreciating what is being learned.
I'm thinking everyone involved with this needs to perceive everyone else as human. We ought to be here for enlightenment as human beings, like they were in Rome and the like, not just for the sake of the next step.
That would be cool.
... but it's never going to happen.
Clara
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