“Schools fill you up too much, too fast. I don't mean they challenge you. I mean, they throw too much work in your face. Being in school is like being incredibly hungry and sitting at Burger King eating too much, too fast to be full, and then eating it all. Good learning, like good nutrition, is not only mental and physical, but also spiritual. In general, you can only satisfy your desire in peace. If you don't have enough time or peace to digest the knowledge, it only gives you headaches. (Llewellyn 49) Learning by working hard makes it unnecessary to go to school. Your regurgitation, or rote learning, of random and useless facts about the antebellum period or about the number of oxygen molecules needed to convert sulfur dioxide into sulfuric acid will not help facilitate learning. It's because you're not learning. You memorize. Learning is doing, using, trying and failing. Using grades as a basis for failing or passing is incorrect. This is due to the lack of feedback they give. They should not be used to “label the unfit” or “wash dirt down the drain.” (Gatto 4) The gradual increase in knowledge, experience and love by doing things, sometimes successfully and sometimes not, is learning. If one wants to learn, he will pursue that knowledge and, in turn, be successful in his learning. It may not be possible to remove all rote learning from school, but it is possible to remove it from classes, like science or English, that don't need it. Rote learning is inevitable. How else are you going to know how to add or subtract, memorize all the presidents, or many other important things? This taught knowledge can be very useful. Going to university, for example, would be impossible without...... middle of paper ...... they would have to learn. They need a constructive environment in which they can learn by doing, not by memorizing. They need to know why their mathematical formula is the way it is, or why iron doesn't oxidize the way it does. With these things changed in school, students can actually enjoy going to school and learning at the same time. It serves no purpose other than keeping the kids out of the house, going to school. You don't learn. Schools should be a time of joy and happiness, but can anyone honestly answer yes to the question of going back to primary school? Why would a child want to waste his life without actually learning? I'm sure their parents didn't.ReferencesLlewellyn, Grace. The Teenage Liberation Handbook. 1st ed. 1 vol. Rockport, MA: Element, 1997. 41.49. Print.Gatto, John. “How Public Education is Crippling Our Children and Why.” School on a Hill September 2003: 4. Print.