The School System is messed up.

We all know it. Most of us have been through it fully. It doesn't work well and it annoys me.

For a start, from the age of 4 to 18, we're educated with outdated, industrial-style methods.

Industrial-Style Methods

But what are these "indusrial-style methods" you may ask? Well, they're staring you right in your face.

• We are taught in tight groups for our entire time in school.
• We are rewarded for doing exactly what we are told to do, and punished for not doing so.
• We have to ask for permission for even the most basic of things, like going to the toilet.
• At least for me in the UK, from the age of 11 we are told to refer to male teachers as "sir".
• We are regimented together under the same timetable, told when we can have breaks.
• We still use an education system that is set up to train us to work in factories.

All of these factors culminate into what is overall a horrible start for anyone who wants to get anywhere in life, or do something different.

Like me for example. My dream is to make music for a living. I know I'm not made for a 9-5, but our education system does absolutely nothing to support people like me.

We learn things the wrong way.

Realistically, the vast majority of things we learn in school are absolutely useless once we finish.

We learn through fact retention, from reading a book over and over again, the entire time we spend at school is developing this skill.

Yet we still don't learn the most important things in life. How do taxes work? How do I vote and how do I know who to vote for?

How do I find and apply for jobs? How do I pursue higher-paying careers, or how do I budget with a lower paying but more enjoyable job?

In our current education system, we are set up to be mere cogs in the capitalist engine, to bring value and income to our workplace, the majority of which we will never see.

We are set up to have every minute of our time scheduled, to leave no time for our passions and to work as hard as we can push ourselves, all just to make money for a capitalist pig.