Reflective Essay: Why I Hate School

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As I begin to write this essay, I thought to myself why am I doing this? I tried and tried to give a suitable answer, but I couldn’t find another answer other than to just get a grade. Should all work be like this? No, I want work to at least have some meaning so, why? Why did fail to find meaning to write this essay? I found no other solution than I hate it-- the whole education system. I hate going school just so I can wasting time when I can obviously do something way more useful work while learning at same time, and most of all I hate bored at least make it fun for me because if this real life, then I don’t want to live in meaningless work. Why do I hate school so much? No, it is not that I do not care about my own education, it is that I care enough about my education and more importantly, my time to understand that various “activities” I have “learned” in school are completely tactless and entirely useless.
Everything that school teaches me, I can easily learn myself in fact I believe that all education is self-education. I also believe nothing useful can be taught, especially at school, I mean if I cannot learn how to write an essay for this class that means I can learn write way more meaningful essay elsewhere. Yes, there are cases of teenagers that are
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Not only does this breed anxiety and other social problems that could cause people to hate learning, therefore contradicting the reason school is here in the first place. We are not meant to learn in school, instead we are meant to learn useful things on our own. This is how I begin to love to learn and rediscover the curiosity I had as child, while learning how to speak or walk. I can learn for fun or enjoyment not for work, this is play time, this is my time. I do my work purely because I breed joy from it and I love with all my heart to do it. Why did you work in school besides for a grade

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