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Education


Welcome to education, we will mold your mind into something you never imagined

We will help form you into a person with intelligence and significance

But wait there are a few things you might need to know in order to stay and be apart of this place

Listen to what we say, originally is faulty, creativity has no place here, and this is a race among your peers, enjoy your stay and remember this is all to survive in the world some day

 

What they forgot to mention is how the system works

A list of questions and limitation of numbers will not determine the knowledge of someone's abilities

You think that a percentage can place a title on our worth and acceptance into a field or subject

We want to improve and succeed at the things we hope to someday do, but how can we when all you teach us is how to get around questions and chose the right answers when they are ultimately trying to trick us

In the end they don’t prove that we know anything at all with knowledge just that once again we aren't enough for something

 

Ask us questions and make us choose letters that are there to make us fail, an unfair advantage if you aren’t naturally smart

There is more ways than one to learn and test a person's knowledge, some prove it more because not everyone can take a test and pass

People are all different and have different ways of doing things you can’t force them to change and fit into a standard that fits your criteria

 

Also what you are really teaching us when putting everything to a score or test

To make us question our knowledge and make us feel worse than we already do

Making us then realize we aren’t good enough to succeed on our own that we legit can’t do anything for ourselves.

Creating us to not believe in ourselves no matter what we do because it's all based on a score at the end of a term or time

 

Put into a file from a small age to build it into a portfolio of expectations and standards

For if you don’t meet the percentage on a paper you are no longer worth working on, at some point there is no point to you

With this system we might as well change our names to numbers because that’s all that seems to matter within our world

A number that matches with a letter completes you for the first 18 years of your life

 

So welcome to education we hope to corrupt you,

that you’ll follow the standards we put before you

Give you a name based on what you earned

Because that’s all you ever deserved

Here are lessons and rules you must obey and maybe just maybe you’ll be good enough someday

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