Dear Children
Education is a gift, but not one that is given freely. Your parents and neighbours and mailman help pay for your education. They are contributing tax dollars towards the education system in hopes that you will come out with an education that will help you develop the next big thing, the next thing that so changes our world that everyone wants it, making your life that much easier. Adults provide the tax dollars so your teachers can be in a classroom, offering you insight into the curriculum that is supposed to help you on your education journey, but you have to want to learn. So if you want to learn, you have to tell people what you are interested in. So many studetns are so focused on their grades, their percent that is a number given based on what? How well you know something? Either you know it, you sort of know it, or you don't, so then shouldn't you be given a 0 or a 1 or a 2. Does it really matter that % mark that you are given? ...