I have come to hate school, but I for one have nothing against getting an education, I love to learn and create and experience things that help better my education, but I have come to the conclusion that school doesn't really help me do that. The "education" that I am receiving from school is 95% useless. It's useless because these teachers have to follow a system of guidelines that are required for them to teach us so they can keep their jobs and continue making money. The things I am "taught" have no benefit to me what so ever. I sit in a desk all day being talked at about stuff that for one doesn't interest me and two isn't teaching me anything. I am not receiving an education. The system is testing me on pure memorization and listening skills, it's as simple as that, if you listen to what you're told and you memorize what you're told to know, you will do good on your tests, that isn't based off of intelligence at all, to me your intelligence is shown through your experiences, through the mistakes you've made, through the mistakes your going to make and through your will to try and understand. So you failed your history test and the girl right next to you got an A, in no way does that make her smarter than you, because her acing that test had nothing to do with how smart she is, she listened and memorized, that's all these tests are, and it's ******* stupid.