Two Short Works
Today I wrote two random pieces of a somewhat self-analytical nature Feel free to critique my grammar for I know that there was at least one error there.
I would like to write a short piece on education. I have been attempting for some time now to write a piece on why I hate the educational system, and how flawed it is, but the passion that I have for the topic makes anything that I have hitherto written unacceptable for the standards. My complete thoughts on the flawed educational system shall be written in due time, but I would like to arouse an interesting point. Over vacation, I learn much more than I do during school. Last vacation I read six or seven books, listening to lectures, had plenty of time to research and converse with some of my friends who are intellectuals. I can honestly say that in that vacation I learned much more than I did in the previous month of school. What that say is that the educational system is not nearly as efficient as it could be, and I say it runs at about fifteen percent efficiency, whereas the time spent on vacation is about seventy five percent efficiency.
On February 26 I wrote this piece, which is essentially the same thing in different wording, but I like ranting. I decided to include it here because I could, and I like the title two short works, but in reality it is three short works.
My major gripe with the educational system is its ineffectiveness and inefficiency as an educational system. The operative word in it educational, and it was not designed initially to educate; it was to instill Christian values and keep order in turn teaching the basic skills needed to succeed such as basic arithmetic. However, the educational structure is not contusive to such disciplines as history and languages.
I fear that in reading Bloom’s thesis on the anxiety of influence, I fear that it may be used on me in terms of philosophy. Am I just Nietzsche and Sartre with some naivety sprinkled on top? I would hope not, and I claim this because I have held many of my present views before reading Sartre and Nietzsche as extensively as I have hitherto (I must use that work in every piece it seems). It is clear that the case could be made that I am just Nietzsche in English only less worldly and less intelligent (but slightly better at arithmetic), yet I claim this is not the case for the reason I have already said, I trust in the intelligence of crowds more than Nietzsche did and I, for some reason, like the categorical imperative but that may change and it puzzles me why I even do, but in a godless universe it is striking. In conclusion, I am not just Sartre and Nietzsche reworked into English with less of a poetic talent but slightly more naïve and less experienced, but the Anxiety of Influence theory, when applied to philosophy, is interesting.
I would like to write a short piece on education. I have been attempting for some time now to write a piece on why I hate the educational system, and how flawed it is, but the passion that I have for the topic makes anything that I have hitherto written unacceptable for the standards. My complete thoughts on the flawed educational system shall be written in due time, but I would like to arouse an interesting point. Over vacation, I learn much more than I do during school. Last vacation I read six or seven books, listening to lectures, had plenty of time to research and converse with some of my friends who are intellectuals. I can honestly say that in that vacation I learned much more than I did in the previous month of school. What that say is that the educational system is not nearly as efficient as it could be, and I say it runs at about fifteen percent efficiency, whereas the time spent on vacation is about seventy five percent efficiency.
On February 26 I wrote this piece, which is essentially the same thing in different wording, but I like ranting. I decided to include it here because I could, and I like the title two short works, but in reality it is three short works.
My major gripe with the educational system is its ineffectiveness and inefficiency as an educational system. The operative word in it educational, and it was not designed initially to educate; it was to instill Christian values and keep order in turn teaching the basic skills needed to succeed such as basic arithmetic. However, the educational structure is not contusive to such disciplines as history and languages.
I fear that in reading Bloom’s thesis on the anxiety of influence, I fear that it may be used on me in terms of philosophy. Am I just Nietzsche and Sartre with some naivety sprinkled on top? I would hope not, and I claim this because I have held many of my present views before reading Sartre and Nietzsche as extensively as I have hitherto (I must use that work in every piece it seems). It is clear that the case could be made that I am just Nietzsche in English only less worldly and less intelligent (but slightly better at arithmetic), yet I claim this is not the case for the reason I have already said, I trust in the intelligence of crowds more than Nietzsche did and I, for some reason, like the categorical imperative but that may change and it puzzles me why I even do, but in a godless universe it is striking. In conclusion, I am not just Sartre and Nietzsche reworked into English with less of a poetic talent but slightly more naïve and less experienced, but the Anxiety of Influence theory, when applied to philosophy, is interesting.
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