RishSA|Imaboss2414
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Well my topic explains it all. I've tried coming back, but there are a lot of factors that are preventing me from doing so, along with my undesire to, so a handful of you probably won't recognize me. All my life I've had great grades, many accomplishments, and I thought I was gifted/smart because of it, and all of my pride disappeared in a split second. Anyways, I've had a lot of questions, and have had no answers. I really need some.
It started a few weeks ago, when I asked my parents if I could file a utility patent. I created a way to make swimming goggles impossible to leak along with easy removal, and nothing like it existed. I also contacted my other friends dad who is the CEO of a fairly big company and has experience doing it, and he said that it would most likely be accepted, and has tons of practical uses. I mean I could license this to one of the big swimming companies like TYR/Speedo, and have a chance of making a lot of money.
I went to my parents about this and they got extremely angry. - They said I was wasting my time because I was doing something that wasn't necessarily "fun for me" or wasn't any thing that would contribute to a successful future, so it was instantly looked down upon. On top of that, my parents decided to take control of my stock portfolio, because I was worrying too much about money, and all I should do was study ,and every now and then have fun.
I was pissed at this moment, because I really thought I could do a lot with this. Then my parents literally decided to tell me my life. "Alright heres how its gonna work. You go to school. Get all A's. Do some sport to up your chances of getting into a good college. Do some science project, and make a club to get into a good college. Get into a good college, then get a good job.
Then I thought over this again. This sort of helped me realize what this world is actually like. You go to school to learn a bunch of crap that you never will lose to go to a school where you learn more junk, and then you go work for someone else. Is that really our world? What happened to pushing innovation, active thinking? Our entire education system is pushing the kids of america to go work for someone else.
I'm not saying that everything we learn in school is useless but a lot of it is. I mean come on. I'm probably never going to use social studies, or calculus in real life. Ever. The only sort of applicable class is Literature/Writing.
On top of that, my parents keep asking me to read these university magazines, and are showing me how all these kids are doing great things, yet when I ask them to do something that has extreme potential, they refuse to let me?
Does anyone know why our education system is like this? Why is it completely useless? I mean I get that some people are fine with working for someone else, but we shouldn't be trained to do that. Can someone help me? Give me some advice? Please if your reading this, at least say something, or give your opinion on this topic. I'm desperate.
It started a few weeks ago, when I asked my parents if I could file a utility patent. I created a way to make swimming goggles impossible to leak along with easy removal, and nothing like it existed. I also contacted my other friends dad who is the CEO of a fairly big company and has experience doing it, and he said that it would most likely be accepted, and has tons of practical uses. I mean I could license this to one of the big swimming companies like TYR/Speedo, and have a chance of making a lot of money.
I went to my parents about this and they got extremely angry. - They said I was wasting my time because I was doing something that wasn't necessarily "fun for me" or wasn't any thing that would contribute to a successful future, so it was instantly looked down upon. On top of that, my parents decided to take control of my stock portfolio, because I was worrying too much about money, and all I should do was study ,and every now and then have fun.
I was pissed at this moment, because I really thought I could do a lot with this. Then my parents literally decided to tell me my life. "Alright heres how its gonna work. You go to school. Get all A's. Do some sport to up your chances of getting into a good college. Do some science project, and make a club to get into a good college. Get into a good college, then get a good job.
Then I thought over this again. This sort of helped me realize what this world is actually like. You go to school to learn a bunch of crap that you never will lose to go to a school where you learn more junk, and then you go work for someone else. Is that really our world? What happened to pushing innovation, active thinking? Our entire education system is pushing the kids of america to go work for someone else.
I'm not saying that everything we learn in school is useless but a lot of it is. I mean come on. I'm probably never going to use social studies, or calculus in real life. Ever. The only sort of applicable class is Literature/Writing.
On top of that, my parents keep asking me to read these university magazines, and are showing me how all these kids are doing great things, yet when I ask them to do something that has extreme potential, they refuse to let me?
Does anyone know why our education system is like this? Why is it completely useless? I mean I get that some people are fine with working for someone else, but we shouldn't be trained to do that. Can someone help me? Give me some advice? Please if your reading this, at least say something, or give your opinion on this topic. I'm desperate.
