Kalel while i do understand where your coming from the problem seems to be that school tries to engulf you. I kept from keeping a full workload that would take too much of my time to be worth it but some people simply HAD to spend nearly all of their waking hours preparing for the next big test. I know some brilliant people that worked hard but nearly didn't graduate because they learned a lot but simply couldn't do tests well unless they went for the 'learn then forget' method.
I had the same revellation as this person did going into my junior year. The problem was since i wasn't quite valedictorian level i couldn't "slack off" as some would call it as much as i wanted to. By the end of my senior year my GPA had dropped some but i got SO much more out of it because i went with learning than passing except for a select few classes. This along with a few other things tie down the system right now.
I fear for my nephew and niece. I really hope they don't fall into this trap of learning to take tests rather than learning about something interesting, useful, or beautiful in this world.
I'm only happy that this year i can enter a college that has the philosophy of what this person describes as being vital.
The funny thing too is i knew my valedictorian for two years and they were locked into that 'slavery' of sorts. Sure they had interests and they even had a boyfriend but their entire life seemed like passing rather than learning.
*sigh* Another article on this kind of stuff that isn't defencive enough. As some readers may know, Dr. Drew would agree that there is OFTEN exceptions to these kinds of things. Plus, people are misguided what the whole higher power thing means. Its vague FOR A REASON. Staunch atheists go to AA and continue going for very long periods of time. Tell me, how does THAT make sense if you say it has to do with god?
As for the whole disease thing, it all depends on your definition(i stopped using official definitions. People seem to not give a shit). One thing is pretty damn certain: alcoholism can be and often is genetic, at least to some degree. More to the root though, dependence on drugs is generally something easily passed down even if said child is immediately adopted, it just happens.
Dr. Drew swears by 12 step because he has treated many thousands-not just a few celebrity's going through this kind of stuff. He has talked with many thousands that HAD gone through this stuff too. Every time someone asks him what to do and that they tried AA or other similar things and that they didn't work, it ALWAYS turns out that simply put they were doing something wrong, were forced into it, or in general weren't at their breaking point yet for wanting to get better.
I fear for my nephew and niece. I really hope they don't fall into this trap of learning to take tests rather than learning about something interesting, useful, or beautiful in this world.
I'm only happy that this year i can enter a college that has the philosophy of what this person describes as being vital.
The funny thing too is i knew my valedictorian for two years and they were locked into that 'slavery' of sorts. Sure they had interests and they even had a boyfriend but their entire life seemed like passing rather than learning.
As for the whole disease thing, it all depends on your definition(i stopped using official definitions. People seem to not give a shit). One thing is pretty damn certain: alcoholism can be and often is genetic, at least to some degree. More to the root though, dependence on drugs is generally something easily passed down even if said child is immediately adopted, it just happens.
Dr. Drew swears by 12 step because he has treated many thousands-not just a few celebrity's going through this kind of stuff. He has talked with many thousands that HAD gone through this stuff too. Every time someone asks him what to do and that they tried AA or other similar things and that they didn't work, it ALWAYS turns out that simply put they were doing something wrong, were forced into it, or in general weren't at their breaking point yet for wanting to get better.