Failure? What failure?
This is going to be a long expository essay filled with rants and satire; if you're not comfortable,
" Failure is the mother of all success."
- Confucius
It's just preposterous how we're faced with a double-edged situation everyday in society.Our society these days, is a fast-paced cosmopolitan digitalized and advance one. Everything on society standards are to be deemed impeccable meaning there is no room for failure. This is rather ironic and contradictory as we're brought up with the values and morals telling us and teaching us that it is human to err and one should never be afraid of making mistakes as the best lessons are from mistakes. However, society today, tells us that there is no room for mistake. This is absurd isn't it? Mistakes are meant to be made, without it what are we supposed to learn? Dolly the sheep, the first cloned organism, was successful after a failure of 277 times ; Thomas Ava Edison failed in creating a complete indoor lighting circuit for 999 times but succeeded in the thousandth try. He said that " he didn't fail 999 times but instead learned 999 ways in which the circuit would not work." Why is society so blatantly preventing us from failing? My math teachers- both elementary and additional, told us that we are not expected to fail nor make mistakes- we shouldn't , it's forbidden; while my chemistry teacher told us that it is okay to make mistakes as she learnt all her lessons from her mistakes and here she is teaching us what she had learnt from her mistakes, my Literature teacher stresses that it's okay to make mistakes in fact she encourages it but just learn from it and never repeat it. It's really contradictory here as Chemistry is a subject that emphasizes 'zero error' while maths is a subject that has room for error- the irony that is present with my teachers words.
The government stresses the importance of education and how we should all be given the rights to a suitable and conducive learning environment but that's just plain empty boondoggle talk! There is in fact no room for mistakes and error, every thing, every single thing is expected to be perfect. Where is that conducive and suitable learning environment that we students are entitled to? The stress amalgamated from the pressure of having to be impeccable is just so overbearing and overwhelming that it stresses students up. And when students are stressed, their work-performance standard goes down a gradient and thus the teachers would scold and pile more homework therefore increasing the stress. With such stress filled hectic lifestyles together with our own external school activities ; ig tuition , piano classes , enrichment classes etc. ( Our lives don't plainly revolve around education and studying like robots just like how the earth evolves around the sun) , where are students going to find time to review their work? Where are they going to find time to study? Where are they going to find time to enjoy the finer things in life? When? and Where? since all their time is dedicated to perfecting everything. Just what has society become? The basic joy of learning has basically evaporated into thin air and the the ardency and thirst students once had for knowledge disappeared? Students are basically memorising information and regurgitating them out for the sake of getting that stupid sharp grade on their paper, they cry break down when they get something lesser than that.
Let me share something with you all, my teacher has threatened to throw whoever who fails the test out of the class for the whole term and guess what? I don't give a single rat about it! Why? Because I plainly and strongly believe that if I had given my all to it than so be it. I've tried and that's my result, I know that I've given it my 100% and I've no regrets. I will not memorise blankly like a freaking robot and regurgitate every single thing out again, what is the point when I don't understand the logic behind it? Why am I blindly doing something that I don't even understand? Society has set social standards so high that anything less than that are deemed as failures . What is deemed as failures in the past are no longer deemed as just failures now- those views are archaistic.
Where is that freedom to fail now?
That's all for my rants, I'm very sure that I've sung a familiar tune or two here and it would just be a plain lie to deny that. I'm off to finish my essay on " What society deems as unacceptable" ; the topic of children out of wedlock and single mothers- how society views and treats them.
Until the next time~
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