Eil "The Great" - Response

Ashly Response

First i want to say this is a great question. But I feel like every day i make bad desicions. but the thing is about bad desicions is... i feel like ill get to learn from them. I think its terrible if you make a bad desicion and learn nothing. Most times if you make a bad decision and pay the consequences You learn something because of how severe the concequenses are. So I say all of that to say my bad desicion was not staying focused in high school on what teachers were trying to teach me. Yes its not fair. Yes the educational system is out dated and designed for factory workers from the early 1900's. Every time you here that bell you know its time to move to another class. And my teachers werent perfect. there were people just like me. And lets not froget...When in LIFE will you need to know the square root of 1,000,000? But still beyond all of my many issues with high school the fact had remained that i was still there to work. And tho it was a stystem that i diddnt respect it was still the same system that taught me to read and write and to think. What excatly was my mistake? my mistake was not completing assignments. My mistakes was not focusing in class like i should. My mistakes were not learning the material. I would get so upset with some of the material they would teach us. I would think to myself. Theres so much more you could teach me besides a Moss plant in some far corner of north aisa. But as im learning and growing im realizing that yes, i may learn information in school that i never need to know But its not like my brain diddnt have room for the knoledge! and even tho i was upset about all of the borieng stuff i learned.

I could of managed my time better and read the books i would read in class that had....nothing to do with the class.. i could of read those books at home. I realize that it was a difficult situation learning stuff that i diddnt think i should spend my time learning but it did teach me patience. And from a universal point ... i feel that life is something to be discoverd from moment to moment. And that if i am learning about some fungus plant in the far off corners of north east Aisa...im still doing what im suppose to be doing with life. Im staying busy. im bieng active, im discovering life. So in conclusin instead of having contempt for our educational system, i think of it as anything else in life. It has its pro's and it has its con's. But the benifits to education truley outways the risk of not having one in my oppinion. in The book im reading true notebooks i really feel a connection to franchesco. Because his mistakes were starting to affect his family financialy. And i feel that my lack of education may affect my family in a bad way as well. Tho i spent the last 2 years of highschool teaching my self software development, and how to build websites, it would be even better if i had these skills along with a college degree.

Natalia's Response

I definitly have felt the affects of bieng around someone in another social class. Notice i diddnt say higher or lower..but another. I was working on a community project with a friend of mines and one day we had went out to eat with his family. My friends father is also friends with a few people in my family. But my friends father just happends to be the assistant to Minister Louis Farrakahn. The Leader of the Nation of Islam. My friends father is also a minister (Ishmil Muhammad). Now these people are the most humble people you could meet but still when we were out for dinner I felt like an Alian. I felt like I was E.T. and i was at croweded denny's on a crowded sunday afternoon. The first time I had lunch with my friends family we had What i belived to be sheep. I had NEVER had sheep before so that was also intresting. I had a few knives and a few forks. And that was the first time that i had had more than 2 utincesls. it was kind of embarassing because i could not help slurping. I And i diddnt know that you should always have one had off the table. But one of the greater reasons i felt out of place was because our meal......came in courses, and if you know me... you know i like to have all my food at the same time and just eat. So the night started off with a simple salad and as you my guess i was eating at the fastes pace. after the salad it was now time for lamb and mash potaetoes. Now of course we had table conversation. But i was the only one trained with the glorieous skill of eating with food in my mouth. I mean..dont get me wrong i was great at it but every one kind of laughed in a good way because i had the art so downpacked. from their out of my curisosity i had asked my friend why his family ate so "Proper" as i called it looking for some sort of word to describe the diffrence in my eating patterns and theirs, and he told me that they had to learn how to learn for events oversees and dinners with heads of state and other countries. So all in all it was a good expierence but i did feel a little uncomfertable and vowed to be a little more knoledgeble on eating and fine dining. I think Mehri's Boy intrest, from the book phersipelous could of talked to Mehri in a one on one manner. and he could of also kept the notes thats something you should cherrish if you really love someone in my oppinion. Overall i believe that if you Reall love yourself...you have a greater love for everyone else. and for that charecter to do what he did...and Mehri's quote on quote "Father" to do what he did shows a lack of human development and that they arnt really comfortable with who they are.