Education

Conversing with someone who believes that the purpose of School is to just pass (and get through it) and trying to explain the value of learning and understanding and the value it brings to a person is like beating a dead horse. 

It seems that no one ever gets the Fishing phrase:

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. 

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. 

Yet time and time again society seems to focus on giving out fishes. Sooner or later it will only be a few people actually knowing how to fish while the rest just sit and wait for fish like a baby waits to be nursed, and then cries out of distress because it is not being fed. The idea going around is that, well what if he doesnt know how to learn to fish, what if he is depressed, what if this or that or another excuse as to why he cannot learn. I mean in rare circumstances is someone physically and mentally disabled that they cannot learn this. But society is treating everyone like they are too physically and mentally disabled to simply care for themselves. It is always someone elses problem. If you dare ask someone to assert themselves or even try to even find out their true potential - you are deemed too privileged! They assume handicapped and disadvantaged first than daring to allow a person to strive. 

The question in this case was if it were ok if a A+ student were to "charitably" give some of their bonus points to the student with the lowest marks. The worst part of this analogy is that even if you were to do this - you arent even "feeding a man for a day". You are literally giving them nothing. They get to say they pass but do not qualify to pass at all. Is this incentive for them to learn more even? Failure should not be looked at as something bad. But a starting place to learn again and learn well and do better than before. 

It's pretty much exhausting. As I said dead horse. 

My mistake in engaging.