Educational systems are fundamentally corrupt

The notion of an "educational system" as we know of today ... it's not just broken. It's fundumentally corrput. It no more serves the causes it was created for originally; it has only become a money-making machine. People think they improve themselves; some think they are helping the society and some think they devote themselves to the holy path of "science", as science has always been regarded as holy and sacred, but in reality schools and colleges are only a place where we go round and round with a false promise, and end up losing time, patiance, mential health, and of course, money (whether by paying it directly, or not having enough time to work).

Worst part is that many entities regard college/school degrees as a method of qualification. That utterly pisses me off. Even though it might seem like this is a modern issue, I believe this problem has always existed but it's massively amplified in the modern days because time goes on fast, and if you don't act fast you lose. You can't really afford going with "I'll just keep doing this unimportant thing until I figure out what the hell I want to do with my life". You get in college and when you come out the world has changed unimaginably. You could get a job 2 years ago, but you chose to attend your classes instead and now no one is hiring you. This harsh reality naturally brings up the most important issue with educational systems: they trade your time for misery. This, however, is not all.

People attend colleges/schools for either of these reasons: they need the degree for a job, better conscription conditions, etc, or they genuinely think that college will make them knowledgable and skilled (or perhaps they just want to have fun, though I haven't seen someone going to college merely to have fun. I'd guess they exist in very small numbers). If life was fair, these paths wouldn't pass through college. You need skills to work, not a piece of paper you call degree, which in no way represents the real you and what you are capable of when your environment isn't intent on screwing you over. Those who become skilled do so by trying hard themselves, whether or not there is a "professor" to decide how and what you should study or how and when you should be examined. In other words, it's YOU that elevate your skills and knowledge which can later be used in a job, further studies, etc. The college is just a clunky medium that is forced upon the lives of youth (and others) through law or outdated beliefs regarding college degrees.

If you fail a course in college (or the entire college for that matter), here are some possible things people/family/friends might tell you:

1. you didn't try hard enough.
2. you just don't have it in you; must have chosen a different major.
3. for the better: college is trash anyway.

There can be truth to these, but they all miss the bigger picture horribly. Even when they say college is trash, it's more "quitter talk" than pointing out an issue with educational systems. Let me break it down.

"You didn't try hard enough"

Sure. In fact, as someone for whom college has become an incredible pain point, I genuinely don't try a good bit of time, and natually my scores don't turn out that promising. I study physics in college, and I genuinely love physics. Any time I open a physics book, my mouth starts watering from how much I want to study, learn, solve problems, and ... then I remember I have to study FOR A GODDAMN EXAM. My muscles go loose once I remember this. My entire body goes numb. A voice echoes in my brain: "here we fricking go again". The clash between how much I love physics and how much I hate to study to satisfy a system is beyond astronomical. I just don't want to do it. I've been told since the school days that "it's gonna be over shortly". After 16 years of it not being over "shortly", I have only a year left of college which seems like an entire lifetime, because the burden of this is weighing down way too much on my shoulders.

In certain periods of my life when I tried, I could get great results. I did it with passion, and I could even forget about other difficult problems in my life when I thought what I'm doing can be fruitful. I have even tried a few times in college, and I've seen that I can do amazingly well (in terms of score) when I actually study. Yes, you're right ... I don't try when I'm systematically disappoined; does that represent who I actually am? does that represent what I'm capable of?

"You just don't have it in you"

In almost all cases, you absolutely have it in you, but you're led to believe that you don't. A system that examines you by its terribly useless standards tells you that you suck at it. People have too much faith in college/school exams. The belief is too dangerously popular that higher score means higher talent. It blatantly ignores any other factors a human might be dealing with, and only sticks with a machine-like exam. Even when "professors" get creative and try a different method of examination, the system is still an impeding force to somehow spoil it.

Because everyone is buying what college tells them, you think you'd be wrong to think you actually have a talent but it's being run over by a truck. "Study this particular book. Attent my classes. Do it my way, or you'll fail the exam that I devise". You're being measured against the self-made scale of someone else, wrapped under the name of "college results", and those around you might amplify it and give it value by repeating it. We believe people have differences, especially in terms of their thoughts. But we do almost nothing to respect that when it comes to education. We're really good at labeling the victims though: the old "talented" versus "untalented", and this has been happening for hundreds of years. This is too covert a delusion. Too subconscious.

"For the better; college is trash anyway"

Right. College is trash. But if you ever find yourself believing this, think about it first: are you taking that as an excuse to not pursue you goals? Did you initially think college can make some of your dreams come true, but since you found it too annoying and possibly gave up on it, you decided to abandon your dreams as well? When I say colleges and schools are sabotaging us, I do not mean that the entire concept of education or acquiring skills should be erdicated, but I've seen many people simply give up on the task of educating themselves and becoming skilled, and instead opt for the easiest (or should I say laziest) path of life. If that's why you hate college, then I'm afraid you're not helping yourself. I do not, in any capacity, deny that there are elements of laziness in me (and sometimes they are huge). But I know that I must work and study hard. I must read techincal and scientific books with the same dedication that some top-notch academic people would do, or even more. I must solve problems and do those exercises in the end of the chapters. I absolutely need to do so. The reason I hate college is not because it tells me to study; it's because the ways of achieving this have become so obscurely unhelpful and deterimental that it has taken away and masked the entire purpose it was originally created for: to make people become knowledgable and skillful.

If you think your life circumstances allow you to abandon college, do not necessarily assume that you don't need to study or read books yourself. Although I believe that not everyone is interested in that in the first place. In every society there are some people who just don't like studying books (or whatever) in general and envision their lives and careers in a way that doesn't require college-level education, and that's totally fine if that's their actual opinion rather than a result of dampening their dreams (in fact, this is another issue I have with legislating education, where people whose career doesn't really require an academic education (but perhaps rather a short course would do) are forced to go through college and waste their time when they could be working (or just enjoying their life; like someone who just wants to get married and spend their time with their family rather than getting bogged down in college), and after they get the glorified degree, it quickly becomes apparent that most of what they've learned was useless or will be forgotten soon, or can be found online very easily). But if you are interested in things that require decent levels of education, then you shouldn't take the freedom from college bureaucracy as an excuse to not level yourself up.

The delusion is multigenerational

The old monster of college or school needs to change radically. Its outdated ideas are so engraved in our brains that sometimes when we think of changes to it, we subconsciously return back to the same useless principles. "How else should we teach? How else should we examine?". You're assuming that there has to be someone teaching and there has to be someone examining you. Not really. In fact, if you take these away, much of what college and school do today would be gone (along with their fraudulent economy). The goal used to be to upheave people's knowledge and skills; now the goal is milking students and paying teachers and profiting in between, and even those who do this are under the dillusion that they are just serving the holy path of science or helping the society. Wake up: a market has been made on exchanging the best part of youth's life for money; then it spits them out jobless and depressed. We went from horses to airplanes; it's time we give education the same treatment, even if "horse grooms" won't like it.