Our education system bores me. It does not give you enough fields to expand your creativity and imagination. All it asks from you is practicality and perfection when all it gives you back is bills and frustration. I hate the idea how years and years of gaining education ultimately boils down to the percentage you scored or the grades you scored. It really angers me when you are judged by your grades and not by the level of you intellect. I hate how your skills other than being good in algebra and science and bringing good grades are termed as mere hobbies.

Why aren’t we taught prose and poetry with as much dedication with which they teach us algebra and trigonometry? Why isn’t music part of our syllabus as much as history or geography is? The answer is of course because our education system doesn’t merely consider poetry and music as a “standard educational course” but rather as extravagances. Our education system is the greatest hypocrite. It teaches us to be ourselves but ultimately shapes us into whatever it wants us to be. Some of us may rebel but we eventually confide in it because we will have to survive and for that we need jobs and for that good grades. So we let ourselves fall into that vicious circle and though we know this ain’t what we want to do we mug up and take exams and cross our fingers and hope for good grades.

Our education system has created an illusion. It makes us see our wings, it ignites the desire in us to soar and even lets us fly but only in the path it deems suitable and appropriate. In a way, our education system has handicapped us with the illusion of freedom and power. Sure, our education system has gave us a lot- a certificate and possibility of a secure future but at what cost? We are slaves to books and its ideas, principles, philosophies. We need to mug them up and write them down while keeping our thoughts, our ideas to ourselves because we need good grades and for that we must write what has always been written and approved and what has been certified as the “acceptable answer”.

So if the education system is so faulty and we couldn’t possibly benefit much from it, do we really need it? I wish I could answer this question with no but I am bound to say yes because unfortunately, this educational system is a product of an even higher evil- a corrupt stone-aged /traditional system through which our nation functions. It cannot change until the whole system collapses and is replaced by a modern and much efficient system. So I hope though not today, though not immediately, one day we shall rise from the laid back syllabus that limits our imaginations , one day we shall break the chains of grading systems that destroy our individual opinions and dreams and one day we shall scream we don’t need such education.