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I will graduate high school knowing how to take the derivative of complicated logarithmic equations. I will not graduate high school knowing how to file taxes. I will graduate high school knowing which European leaders were responsible for the catastrophe that was the League of Nations. I will not graduate high school knowing how to work towards a resolution of the Syrian refugee crisis. I will graduate high school knowing the differences between a Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnet. I will not graduate high school knowing how to fix a flat tire. I will graduate high school knowing who has the best chances of playing pro ball. I will not graduate high school knowing if I have an aptitude for my chosen fields of study.<\/p>\n

The American education system\u2014public and private\u2014has a tendency to emphasize various academic fields of study that, though helpful to a point, often become essentially unhelpful. Call me crazy, but I think it is important to hold the ability to be able to invest in your own future in high esteem. I ought to be able to graduate knowing I am prepared for at least the most basic difficulties life is guaranteed <\/i>to throw at me… like filing taxes. After all, Benjamin Franklin asserted that \u201cin this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t learn that quote in school, though. No, I learned it in my own independent reading, something I wish more people did more often. The more popular trend, though, is just to scoff because \u201cthere\u2019s video games to play.\u201d Are video games going to teach you any life lessons? Help you grow up? Learn something important? No. Try some Shakespeare. Some Bronte. Maybe some Plato. Pick up a Newsweek. If you really need to spend mind-numbing hours staring at a screen, do it when the news is on so you can recognize there are worse horrors in the world- much worse- than the poorly animated zombies running around your TV screen.<\/p>\n

I know I\u2019m guilty of spending a few too many hours staring at a screen some days, too, but I always try to fight my way back to reality. I know I have a tendency to slacken my quest for knowledge when I walk out of the school doors, but I never stop. I know homework makes it difficult some days; I\u2019m well aware it\u2019s hard to catch up on world affairs while trying to do some \u201cwicked hard implicit differentiation,\u201d as my Calculus teacher calls it. But that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t try. If school isn\u2019t going to provide us with what we feel is the necessary, then we have to work for it ourselves. Even if that means I give up some precious free time. Even if that means I trade in Divergent<\/i> for Dante\u2019s Inferno. <\/i>Even if that means I trade in TBS for CNN. Even if that means I trade in pizza with friends for volunteering at a local food pantry.<\/p>\n

School can only expose us to so much reality without risking censure from the school board. You\u2019ll probably never see a class field trip to the homeless shelter. So the responsibility falls to us. Our education system can only give us the tools we need to succeed- critical thinking, literacy, mathematical capabilities- but it can\u2019t build the whole boat for us.<\/p>\n

Maybe, then part of the reason I can\u2019t fix a flat is because I\u2019ve never searched for the information. Not just because the school didn\u2019t provide it. Perhaps it\u2019s a crazy notion, but maybe- just maybe- we are as responsible for our education and understanding as any school administrator.<\/p>\n

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