Like an emetic, truth purges. The actual process is quite painful and exhausting, but conditions improve after the cleansing, and your health is much better off than when you had the poison inside. And you didn't even know the poison was there. You could just feel it eating away.
Well, maybe it isn't even truth yet, but there is a strong inclination towards validity.
After expressing my disdain for the conventional American educational system and its pointless busy work and fact memorization I was informed of an alternative. Of course, the alternative would be too expensive for my liking and it turned out to be inconsequential for my cause, but allow me to toy with the concept anyway. There are certain colleges dotted across the country (generally private) that focus on knowledge and understanding and writing and ideas within the confines of a small (10 people, give or take) class. There are no grades. No A's, no B's, no C's, no bullshit. To me, this is really quite ideal. It is an ideal concept to me because I for one am interested in the acquisition of pure, genuine, uncut knowledge (uncut like cocaine, aha I made a funny. No? Moving on). I am not interested in being a perfectass, with my straight A's, and my fading memorized facts that leave me to rot in my desert of ignorance. I am not going to sugarcoat my opinion on the grade. I was once concerned with such things in my junior high and early high school days, but those days are over. Granted, there are certain things a school can't teach, like eloquence, and cleverness, and creativity...and genius. I am not accusing our education system of failing to make us super genius visionaries, but geez...there has to be something better than this. Seemingly there is...I just can't afford it. Back to grades! Now I'm sure the guy who came up with the concept had good intentions and was meaning for it to be a sort of motivation for the students, but we all know from history that there are some great ideas out there that are just not so great in practice. All a grade does is cheapen our aqcusition of knowledge, and in this day and age, liken it to some little competitive sport to see who can be better at being a jackass. Which is typical of today's society anyway. But now things are getting a little too bitter, and I have to stop myself. This is only my opinion, and not the truth mentioned above.
On a lighter note, I bought and downloaded the full versions of Geometry Wars and Marble Blast and am having a good time with both.
