What is wrong with the political belief systems and how they
are organized in the world today? Everything. Conservatives in America are
against gun control, for capital punishment, against abortion, and for the
prohibition of drugs. That does not make sense to me, if you’re anti-abortion
then you are considered pro-life, but how can you be pro-life if you’re for
capital punishment? Conservatives say that they are standing up for the free,
but they want to illegalize drugs and abortion. Up until a certain extent
abortion should be the mother’s choice. It’s the same notion with drugs; it’s a
person’s choice and liberty to do drugs if they want to or not. Should a
conservative not be for every single personal liberty? No, actual conservatism
is the exact opposite.
Liberalism
is fun too. A common idea amongst liberals is that abortion should be legal,
while capital punishment should be illegal. They believe in ending the war on
drugs, whilst believing that the government should control what people eat,
drink, and whatever else. This does not make sense either. Somewhere in history
liberalism and conservatism merged. The classic idea of liberalism is now
libertarianism and the classic idea of conservatism is now almost non-existent.
Liberalism is actually a political and economic philosophy that includes the
ideals of complete freedom.
Modern day
liberalism could be denoted as progressivism. Many people do not understand the
differences between political philosophies and economic philosophies. Instead
of educating students in high school about sciences and mathematics such as
physics and geometry that they will most likely never need unless they enter
into that specific field, we should be educating them on the different
political philosophies and their actual ideals. The social sciences in my eyes
are the foundation for society; without them we would have no ability to
communicate or study the world. While many officials insist on turning the
focus of education to sciences and mathematics we should be giving the students
the option to decide what they need to take. After all, aren’t school systems
built to educate students?
Many of the
things that students learn in high school are a complete waste of time; most
students will never need to know physics, geometry, chemistry, or trigonometry.
The educational system in the United States needs to be revamped and
reevaluated. The purpose of a school system is to educate kids and give them
the knowledge that they will need in life, however, in the United States this
is not the case. In the United States, the educational system is built to
profit the educators and administration; this is where we went wrong. Many
people today wonder why students hate school; if they would really like to
know, ask the students.
Even a
majority of colleges and universities are in agreement that the mandatory
educational system is flawed. We should be preparing tomorrow’s society for
tomorrow rather than preparing them for more schooling. Schools tend to cater
more towards conformity instead of disconformity. We are going back to the
Middle Ages, where humans were afraid to stand out among society. This is
something we need to change, look at our greatest leaders, philosophers,
artists, and inventors. Did they conform to society? No, Thomas Edison was told
he could never invent the filament.
Albert Einstein was told that he was stupid or idiotic when he went
through school. Maybe we should praise the students that don’t have the ability
to sit down and do busy work; celebrate the people who have no interest in
memorizing a periodic table. We should be commending the pupils that would
rather write an essay over something that interests them than taking notes on
something they could give a shit about.
Curriculums
should be built around each student, or made to order, instead of being built
around the whole student body. If we abandoned teacher unions and toughened the
requirements to be an educator we wouldn’t have so many inferior teachers. A
large amount of teachers just become teachers because of the job security,
benefits, and ease. If we could change this we would have many more educators
that taught for the love of teaching rather than for self-gain. Maybe I am just
highly psychotic or crazy, but I really do hope someone of authority sees this.
