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Originally Posted by Derek
exactly. i was never good at maths, science or anything because i'm not a logical person, my talents lie in my creativity. the very fact that the public school system puts down creative individuals and that it is creative subjects that are getting cut from higher education faculties means that countries will end up as working drones with no art or culture attached to their society.
what's funny is that when i went into my senior years of high school (well, i'm still in high school, this was last year), i was told not to do subjects like modern studies and music because i was told by the teachers that i wouldn't be able to keep up with the courses. i had to get my PARENTS to insist that i take the courses and hey look, A's straight through. i got better marks in those subjects than i did with english, the ONLY subject i was told i could handle that year. moral of the story? teachers don't know what the hell they're talking about.
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At least you get that choice Derek. Here you have to do the same subjects as everyone else, and if you fail ONE do the ENTIRE grade all over again and lose a year of your life.
But now that I'm an old woman I sort of figured out that the world doesn't really want creative individuals. You'll go to job interviews in corporations where they are trained to analyse this: they should be smart enough to understand what we want them to do, but not smart enough to understand what we're doing.
They need doers, not thinkers. Unless you're talking science, but then they want the ones that are blinded by the work and status itself, not the ones with any kind of morals or goals.
Questioning things is not a desired ability in the job market. This is why I do my own thing: got tired of having to pretend to dumber than I really am in a non-threatening way. But they are trained, they see right through that.
Good thing is creative individuals never run out of options, never get stuck. It took a long time for me to realise that the feeling that "I don't belong" anywhere is actually a good thing.