"Why I hate school but love education" -Suli Breaks

I'm coming across with an inpsiring video: somehow Suli Breaks has bagged millions of hits with his breakthrough monologue "Why I hate school but I love education". In only six minutes this british student makes you doubt if education has the value thta you've always have given to it and even, if the educational system thta we have is the best one. So I recomend you to take a minute to watch the whole video because it woth it. 

“Education is about inspiring one's mind not just filling their head”, said Suli Breaks. If you search “School is” in Google, you will get: “School is a waste of time”, “School is boring”, “School is prison”… If you search “School makes me feel”, you will find: “School makes me feel suicidal”, “School makes me feel worthless”… And that’s because the educational system is not working properly; if you fail a test, it makes you feel like a failure and this is not a way to inspire or teach people. Now Google “Education is”, and you will get “education is the key to success”, “educations is freedom”, “educations is the great equalizer" “Education inspires, with an education you can chase your dreams, with an education you can do whatever you want…” In fact, there also are sentences that we are used to but I have to say that not once in school I have learned how to “chase my dreams”, how to explore what I want to do after college,… but of course, I have learned where Uganda is and the complexities of polynomial systems.

I believe that one of the main problems of school is that we should not solely be learning about other people’s theories, ideas or perspectives on a subject and then, throw up it in an exam and forget what you have “learned” forever and pass to the next theory, idea or perspective because, how many of us has study something so hard for then, forgive it after the exam? For this, I thik that education should be find and learn about our own perspectives and ideas and what that means.  School should be about inspiring people to strive for the best in anything that they do instead of showing students at what 

they are good or bad according to a mark, education should  be about showing students new skills and opportunities and not crossing they answers because they are “out of the checklist”; education shouldn’t be closing students in a grey room and teaching them about hyperboles and Pythagoras theorems and convincing them that knowing this techniques will bring them a better life or that a university degree will solve all your problems because, in fact, that’s the way our society runs: you are told day in day out about going to primary school, going to secondary school, get a degree, work, have a family and put your child in the same cycle. But, "let me ask you this; what are you studying for?" People say that education is the key to success and I’m sure you have heard your parents, your teachers and most people in society saying that you need to through high school, get into the best college you can and then, get a job. And there’s so much pressure to follow this path. The whole process is about being six hours in a classroom, trying to get a grade, trying to pass the next text and trying to finish the latest assignment. School is about memorizing dates, times and numbers for what? You will never think again about the year that Cervantes loose his hand or where Tirkemeinstan is; I’m still waiting the moment in my life when I can use all my knowledge about subordinate sentence.

With this, I’m not saying that school is wrong and it’s better not to go, I’m saying that the way that it works, the way that it “educates”, it’s not the best one. Education is about experiences, building yourself and learning. I think that the first priority of all education system should be hep students to find their potential and not make sure you can finish a book before the year ends and schools, at the moment, are not providing this. We are just told how great other people have been and what’s the next step we should take for have a “good life”; we never learn what we can really do or about what ideas we have and what does it mean.

Finally, If you search the definition of “education” in a dictionary you will find the next: “the act or process of educating; to teach (a person) by instruction or school” and in fact, this is exactly what our education system is doing nowadays, you go to school for “filling your mind”, for instructing yourself, instead of “inspire” your mind. For this, I would like to end providing a new definition of what I think that education should be: “Education is the process of inspiring, engaging and encouraging people to construct their own view, to build their own ideas and their own thought processes”.