The Teenage Brain

Shitty teachers

With the constant science jokes and the scientific basis behind the whole damn book you might have noticed, I'm a nerd. And you know the whole concept of nerds being the teacher's pet? Nu uh doesn't happen here (At least not always ;) But then I've always wanted to write on this topic so yeah.

Let's break it down. Shitty teachers ... well there are two types.

1) Shitty teachers who are actually shitty teachers.

2) Shitty teachers who aren't shitty teachers. More like misunderstood souls.

And we shall look into the first category. You see, being a nerd, when I sit in class, thoroughly enjoying the subject, while the majority of the rest of the people are just whining about how they want to get out of the place, I get annoyed. I'll explain why.

When I look at physics, when you actually think about it, the concept of Force, Pressure, and Sound etc was not written down at the dawn of humanity. All these concepts were developed by homo freaking sapiens. I feel genuinely proud and amazed at every aspect we come across. As the subject gets more complicated all I feel is a sense of astonishment because people back then didn't really have Google. All they mostly did was predict according to calculations and they were mostly right! Same goes for Math.

I keep thinking if someone like Newton or Einstein was born in this generation, where technology is already pretty advanced ... just think of the wonders they'd come up with. Same goes with biology. Have you ever looked at any living thing and thought 'I wonder how that works?' We've broken down our knowledge to the cellular level!

What I'm annoyed with is that most people don't realize this. (To be truly fair, its not their fault, actually)

When we were taught at middle school, I believe we rarely had good teachers. No I'm not talking qualification wise, but passion wise. Throughout my middle school, I've come across only ONE teacher who I thought was genuinely passionate about her subject. (And she didn't personally teach me, I've only heard of the way she teaches)

The rest of the people are just there because they need the extra money. Or because they're bored. People who failed at being doctors and engineers come teach science and math. Failed at being lawyers? Come teach Social science.

That's not how it's supposed to work. Learning is supposed to be fun. I discovered that on my own. There's one question I've always had since I was a kid, "WHY DO WE HAVE TO LEARN THIS WHATS THE DAMN POINT OF ALL THI-"the answer I've always been given? "BECAUSE ITS IN YOUR SYLLABUS AND YOU NEED TO GET GOOD MARKS AND BECOME A DOC-"

Ever been in a convo like that? Yeah it sucks.

Since we were always forced into studying like that, as a kid I'd always think of making it fun somehow. I'd watch YouTube videos or read really colorful books on the same topics, and all that extra shit, NOT SCHOOL, that extra shit I did to make it fun ... taught me to look at the beauty in every aspect of knowledge. Not my middle school teachers. And Biology was what intrigued me the most.

Every time I'd read something about some amazing mechanism us humans have, I'd learn to appreciate the beauty of creation. What god gave us is truly amazing. Sadly, other kids in my class were forced to learn about the respiration process, just because it was in the damn syllabus. No teacher ever stopped to explain to us the beauty of creation, the fact that more than a million tiny particles keep fighting for us, just for us to breathe, because they had to finish the portion, obviously.

The reason we study biology is to appreciate all that. Sometimes when depression takes over, parts of the thoughts that cheer me up are the fact that if I fall down and bleed, trillions of immune cells will freak out, cry, get reinforcements sometimes even sacrifice themselves and give a shit about me, just because of a tiny scratch. I can't let them down, so I have to keep going. This, THIS, is how were supposed to look at school. But no, sadly, no.