Let me paint a picture similar to Warhol for you, quick. It’s high school and you’re in class. The teacher, oblivious to the fact that everyone in the class is sexting their boy/girlfriend or looking at the phone app for Facebook, keeps talking about how letters have found a way to sneak their way into math problems. She thinks she is making sense but to you it sounds more like “wah-wah” mumbling like the teacher Miss Othmar from Peanuts. You aren’t paying attention to her but more so to the fact that no one is caring about this at all. Doesn’t it seem a little ridiculous to you that no one cares?
That’s the problem with society today. No one cares anymore to be anything more than a slacker. This ongoing lack of self-motivation has destroyed our generations to come. The saying goes, “He who is without sin, shall cast the first stone,” and believe me, yours truly had a first-class seat on the slacker train. Looking back, I was more interested in sports and chasing girls than I was in learning economics or physics. I was more into earning my way to a date with a cheerleader then earning my way to a college education.
Maybe if kids stopped trying to be class clowns and started trying to be class president, then I'd care more about future education. I did it with what was given to me, why can’t they? Show me that kids in high school know the chemical formula for Sodium Chloride and not how to mass-text pictures of someone’s butt crack and I’ll start to believe in education again. Until then, I’ll be in the library until 1 a.m. while the row of nerds plays World of Warcraft on computers paid for with our tuition money.
