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Why School is Prison

Quotes of the week: "Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." -Euripides "Beauty may be dangerous, but intelligence is lethal." -Unknown Reasons why school is prison (besides the terrible lunch meals) Image drawing and editing done by me . Have you ever sat in a boring classroom, with nothing to do but hear the teacher talk about the most boring subject ever, and asked yourself, "Why am I here?." As students, we sit in classrooms, in the exact same location that we're in, six to seven hours a day, five days a week, sometimes even more. A  friend of mine  once said that " Instead of striving to learn any of the vast curiosities that surround us, we drill in just enough to bubble in and scribble out the right letters to be passed along year after year, with no actual gain of useful knowledge more than facts that we will inevitably forget as we move along." The truth is that for most of us, it feels like w...