Holidays made me hate school.

As we are celebrating a new year, we are also celebrating the reopening of school, at least for youths around the world. In a blink of an eye, we have to go back to school and what we expected to be a very long holiday has finally come to an end. 

Don't you guys sometimes feel that the times you enjoy are very short? Compared to the times where you have to go through lots of hardship? It seems like forever, some people would lament. Another school year has begun, and there comes the homework, tests and exams. But in the blink of an eye........again, the school year has officially ended. Exams are over, no more tests, no more stress. And then, we would suddenly see ourselves missing our friends. At the very least, we can still meet them during the holidays. And after what seemed to be a very short holiday, school has reopened and in a blink of an eye, its the holidays again...

And......, a cycle starts forming in your head. Homework tests exams holiday. Homework tests exams holiday. Homework tests exams holiday.  Homework tests exams holiday. ( Ctrl c...Ctrl v. Get what I mean? Every school year, we are doing the same thing, the only thing that actually changes is the toughness of it. As you mature, you are generally expected to know more, and therefore, the higher expectations.

The holidays wasn't just a break for me from the hectic school life( we deserved it), it was as well a time for us to do the things we loved. Playing basketball, going overseas to enhance your perspective of the world, and do things you truly love and have the passion for. And now, before we can really get involved in the things we truly love and have a passion for, school has reopened.

One thing about schooling is that it is fixed and very much inflexible. Everybody does the same thing. If I am good at something else and can actually excel in it, I still have no choice but to excel in the things that the school wants me to do. Maybe supporters of the schooling system may say school is good as it sets the standard. Learning and education is good. Schools shouldn't test on what we have learnt from school. That kills the love for learning. 

Youths can enjoy the love for learning, and at the same time do what they love to do in their life.

Then that would be Utopia. I guess.