Education

   I was playing a game last night with my best friend. I am not going to lie we were pretty high, or as I call it- medicated, because the word high feels like it has a stigma around it so I don't like using it. So, there we were medicated as fuck, 3 in the morning sitting on my couch and....drawing. The game was simple we each asked each other in turn to think about something that has no clear meaning. Such as... Think of Death? And then we had to draw the first thing that poped up in our minds as a picture or a feeling. So as we were playing and it was my turn I thought of the word EDUCATION and all of a sudden this big gloomy looking church with broken down fence and a huge cross on top of a tower just poped up in my head. I EVEN HEARD A BELL. Now, for some people this will mean that cannabis has fucked up my brain, however, I respect my drug and I use my drug; I don't let my drug use me... sooo due to my respect to it I feel like it is giving me something that I can comprehend only when I am medicated. This is not going to be the first time, just imagine a singer or an author who has not been on any drugs and they have created something. Most people do need psychoactive drugs to give themselves a little push that when sober you don't have in order to reach another level of creativity.

   Anyway so why gloomy church popes up in my mind when I think of EDUCATION? Because education is dead, just like religion. It is a brain washing industry and its time has long passed. Education should inspire you to think and never ever tell you what to think. Fortunately I've seen education in two completely different countries. I received my first 12 years of education in a country which is on the edge between second and a third world country. At the moment I am at university in one of the greatest countries The United Kingdom BUT the education as a whole is absolutely the same in both countries. It's all following orders and completing short-memory tasks also called exams. There is no creativity, no inspiration, no individuality. There is NO ME when I step into an exam or when I am writing an essay. Why not? I think I have pretty good ideas, different views on things. When I said that to one of my teachers at uni all she said was that I was not qualified to express my opinion! In an essay I need to reference my opinion and if no one else before me has had that idea or opinion, especially in a published journal, I cannot use it. And then I start to wonder... how did the first person who invented ANYTHING new referenced his idea?

   I do not want to follow into someone else's footsteps I want to create my own path, other people's footsteps had just inspired me. I want you, as a teacher, to inspire me to go on a road where no one else has been so I can do something new. I guess I have always known that I will never be a good student, I can never follow orders and be bound to structures and limits therefore I will have to do it the hard way- my way. Always my way.