School

After the early morning work comes the school part of work. This work everyone must do until at least the age of 16. Of course, everyone already knows that. Naturally, no one enjoys this part of work (some aspects of it --sure, but for the majority of your school career the only fun parts are in elementary when everything is still exciting and not mundane). They should emphasize more on the fact that learning is good for your soul rather than to succeed in life you need an A in this class.


They should do away with class rank and all the other things that rank and compare people to one another. Everything in this society is made into a competition, which in itself is not always a bad thing. But when the competition comes to learning that automatically makes the first 12 or 13 years of your life based on big competition. Who wants that? --not me, that's for sure.


Now, I know that some people are smarter and cleverer than others and some are dumber and equally as un-clever as anyone can be, but I also know that the smarter and cleverer people know how to manipulate this system that is set up. I know this, because I spend my days around the smartest and cleverest people.
We are lazy. We'll do anything we can to get out of doing a 100% job on anything (most of us anyway). And those of us who try are still shafted, or so it seems. The smartest and cleverest get that attention that everyone of us thrives on. Even the laziest of the those get this positive motherly affection, which everyone thirsts for, because they are one of the brightest of the bunch. And so the rest of us, who seem to be ignored, just go on through our lives feeling inadequate because we never got that "special attention" we so thrive for.


Now, what does this have to do with work?--you may ask. Well of course, everything. In saying (or rather complaining about) all of the above, the school systems (at least in america) are basically set up in this "let's play favorites". Therefor, those that feel they are shafted in the least finally give up by the end and resort to that which the smartest and the cleverest have been doing all along, unfortunately -- it is hardly as successful. If the teacher is fair he'll grade according to work effort and also content. Thus the laziest of us will also get the shaft, but they deserve it. It all resorts to who can do the least amount of work and get away with it. While we are still being rewarded for outstanding brain capabilities this is also ingraining in our minds that it is OK to be lazy because we still get rewarded for having higher intel than the average person, even though we are possibly the laziest human beings ever to walk the Earth.