The first time I can remember worrying about school was when I was eight years old. The stress then was nothing compared to the stress school gives me now of course, but it was still the first moment I can recall realizing learning was important. That was when it dawned on me that you are mostly defined by what you know. I started to worry about what I was learning because I realized I wanted to be viewed as someone who was smart
My parents made the decision to homeschool me and my siblings sometime before I was born. I’ve heard tons of reasons for them deciding to do it. Why they homeschooled us was never something I thought too much about. Whenever it came to thinking about my education I always found myself considering how they did it instead of why.
I can’t remember doing any school until I was around age
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If I wasn’t enjoying learning something, then I found a different way to approach it. I tried different things until it was no longer a chore I had to do and I started to really enjoy learning. School became something I could look forward to. It’s easy to love learning when you’re not being forced to do it.
As a high school junior, I have complete control over and responsibility for my own education. I choose the when, what, where, and how. With college looming ahead of me, I worry that what I enjoy about school now won’t apply when I’m a fulltime college student. I fear that when I go and sit down in that classroom with a bunch of random people I won’t be thinking about how excited I am to learn. I’ll be focused on getting the work done and passing the class.
I question why institutionalized education has to look like it does. To me, it seems so wrong that something as fundamental as learning can be so dreaded, that something so important to growing as a person is so widely disliked. We created schools specifically as a place to learn and yet, we hear so often how much stress they