School is really taking a toll on my mental well-being

[Roman25]

I am sorry for talking about a negative subject but I feel that it is necessary. School is a really bad system in my opinion. Doesn't teach you anything you can't learn in an hour, wastes a ton of time, kids become zombies by using their phones during class. The reason of why everyone is capable of enduring school is the fact that they own a phone and they aren't very conscious of how bad school is. I don't which is good since bringing a phone to school is awful for your psyche. In fact, phones are like cigarettes unless you're wise. I feel a deep negative emotion whenever I'm at school. What are your thoughts on this subject? Also, for some reason I can't access actualized.org on Google unless I use internet explorer or a different computer. Idk why.

[SgtPepper]

Dude I feel you. School sessions always brings emotion rollercoasters for me too. Overall though, it can be avoided if you prep properly. This means setting aside time everyday to study (actual study tho, don't dick around on the internet), do NOT procrastinate, and actually care about what you are studying (ie. Look at your textbook, read it, ask questions). If you do all of that with ease, school is pretty easy and can be a fun learning experience. My issue is I lack discipline and so I often procrastinated, I still got everything done, but not without anxiety and stress. Still though, I enjoyed learning about various subjects, some professors/teachers are inspiring and intelligent, the people you meet can also be uplifting and a good source of emotional/academic support. 

I already graduated from College, but if I could go back and give myself advice it would be definitely be to not procrastinate as much as I did.

[Forestluv]

@Roman Edouard I'm a professors and I see what you are talking about everyday. Students distracted on the cell phones - detached from their environment, detached from each other. A calculus professor spending an hour explaining a highly complex math problem they find elegant and exciting - yet has absolutely no practical relevance to the student's lives. A developmental biologist making his students memorize dozens of structures during chick development - which all the students will forget an hour after the exam and never use the rest of their lives.

However, there are also school environments conducive to learning meaningful things. In my classes, students don't use cell phones. We cover topics like the role of microflora in brain development and function, unconscious biases, anxiety, depression, the various effects of recreational and prescription drugs on the mind, how viral STDs are transmitted and cause their effects. . . stuff that matters in their lives.

[CreamCat]

You should ask your parents to allow you to drop out of school. Tell your parents that you want to figure out life purpose.

You should figure out your life purpose before you decide whether you want to go to college.

College is not the right education model for many fields. For programming and engineering, college is good.

Leo's life purpose course can help you with developing your life purpose.

Edited September 10, 2018 by CreamCat

[RichardY]

@Roman Edouard

Lots of successful people never finished school.

Smartphones can be ace, even if you can't concentrate for long, you can still listen to audiobooks on your smartphone.

If you had the qualifying paper would you still be there? Probably moral sentiment keeping you there.   

[lmfao]

@Serotoninluv what are you a professor in? 

[lmfao]

@Roman Edouard the number one problem I found with school is that it takes a one size fit all approach. People who are too smart or too dumb get disadvantaged. The too smart die of boredom and find it hard to fit in, the too dumb are constantly receiving feedback (through exams, homework and grading) that they are not smart and so the too dumb people will interpret this as meaning that they are inferior. When you are taught anything at school you are told that it is true and you are not told why/how something is asserted to be true. Schools do not reward curiosity, in fact its the opposite. People would think that I'm showing off when I ask a "complicated" question to a teacher out of curiosity, and often the teachers wouldn't even know the answer to my question and would only give me information as far as I had already thought through the thing on my own. In order to get marks in an exam I would have to dumb down what I was saying and instead have to repeat verbatim what big brother wants to hear. I wanted to learn things because I found them interesting and didnt care about grades, other people learnt for the sole purpose of getting an "A". A fixed mindset is imbedded into the atmosphere of my high school, I found. As you can tell, I'm pretty bitter about school. 

Edited September 11, 2018 by lmfao

[Forestluv]

11 minutes ago, lmfao said:

@Serotoninluv what are you a professor in? 

Genetics, molecular bio, developmental bio and neuroscience. I rarely write about science on this forum as I want to develop higher skills into yellow and turquoise zones.

I used to have the mentality of a hard core scientist. Now that I'm part mystical, I think I'm viewed as a nutty professor around here. Last week I was chatting with a few freshman students about paranormal phenomena. One student seemed to have a hard time sizing me up and asked if I was a "real" scientist. He immediately apologized and tried to clarify what he meant. I laughed and told him it was the highest compliment I've received all week

[Roman25]

@Serotoninluv lol speaking of paranormal phenomena..... I still haven't gotten over my fear of ghosts lol. Usually whenever it's super dark or I'm taking a shower. I don't believe in them but the idea of them is enough to scare me

[lmfao]

@Serotoninluv woah cool. I would have studied something biology related at university if I didn't like maths. I think I still have the mentality of a hardcore rationalist in many ways. Like even when I was a super strong rationalist type of guy in mentality, I was still open to philosophy and metaphysics (but not spirituality). A hardcore physicist would believe all is one and that free will doesn't exist because of the belief that there are laws of physics which even should they happen to change they change in ways predetermined by the laws of physics. 

[Roman25]

@lmfao I never really enjoyed being rationally minded since I feel like it's boring xD. I usually believe what I want to believe, even if it's completely false, I don't care. I do find it interesting how people don't have free will. I would have thought that me moving my arm whenever I want counts as free will but Leo's vid on free will was very interesting.

[Forestluv]

@lmfao I love science, logic and reason. It's fun stuff and a great tool.

Sometimes it's best to use a saw, other times a hammer. Don't limit ones-self to one tool.

Leonardo Da Vinci is my favorite mind. A biologist, artist, philosopher, poet, engineer and on and on. . .