<p>Is this your experience in high school? Do you feel suffocated, and have this nagging urge to seek the truth at all costs? Then you should not waste your time in choosing to attend a stifling school that does not encourage free speech. </p>
<p>Come to universities that will expand your mind. Harvard and Yale in the east coast pursue this, while Berkeley, Stanfurd, UCLA, USC, UCSD, Claremont Colleges, do this on the west coast. Remember if this quote is you, then you will find that inner longing for the truth to be satisfied only in a true academic learning environment. And that comes with choosing the right school. </p>
<p>“Is this your experience in high school? Do you feel suffocated, and have this nagging urge to seek the truth at all costs? Then you should not waste your time in choosing to attend a stifling school that does not encourage free speech.”</p>
<p>That is the whole purpose of schools. It is to keep us docile. They fill our brains with their Nazi apologists ********.</p>
<p>Here is a great article on the public education system. Although, according to that piece you posted it is regarding a conservative Catholic school. Well, those are worse.</p>
<p>I could not agree more and coming from a school in the South Bronx I can tell you how it is for the working class. In elementary school we took two subjects, English and math. No science no History. It was a concentration camp were we dreamed of escaping. We usually became so frustrated that anything that agiatated one person would usually result in a fight. I myself have a significant amount of fights in my record. The purpose now is to put the poor and minorities in prison to further feed the private-prison industry. In high school they almost encourage you to fail and drop out and most students, an overwhelming 85%, drop out of school. They set these rigid guidelines of what you must do, past these many science classes. Yet I am not complaining that we have old books, I am complaining that we have no books. In all of the science classes they just give you an 80 page summary on the specific science you are taking. If you don’t get help at home or buy your own book you will definitely have difficulty passing that class.</p>
<p>I go to a pretty crappy public school, but I don’t feel suffocated. We’re all very competetive in terms of our grades, athletics, awards, EC’s, etc. My school has special breakfasts and priveliges for honor roll students. We offer a ton of classes, from AP’s to music/art to computers to P.E. It has one of the highest rates of 4.0 students in the county. I can’t say my school hasn’t given me the tools to academically succeed. Our AP science classes are actually a 2 periods to do labs, science here is just as good as history/english/math</p>
<p>yes I have in fact, while I don’t go to inner city schools, I have spent more time there then you would expect, yes they suck, (5 kids in entire school on honor roll) but just think how lucky you are to GET an education. Some people would be thankful for just that.</p>
<p>He might be thankful if it was caused by few resources and everyone was strugging together; however, that’s not the case. It’s ridiculous that a student in the south bronx struggles to buy books when he’s in one of the most affluent cities on Earth.</p>
<p>The only reason that I think that I am doing fairly well is because I am an immigrant and was educated in another country untl fourth grade. In fact of the dozen or so students in the honor roll at my school most of them are Dominican, there is one Black but he is from Antiga. You have to see it to believe it, all of my Dominican friends who went to elementary school in the US have averages in the 60s and 70s, then those born and educated in the Dominican Republic are the 80s and 90s. There is something seriously flawed with the educational system in the South Bronx, when the same group of people are going to prison if they had the pleasure of being born here and going to top schools if they are immigrants.</p>
<p>oh man, i go to school in pelham right now, right above the bronx. its not only the school system that is crap, but he lives in probabably the worst area in the east coast. there is something fundementally flawed, and i think the problem goes to america as a whole. where stupidity is rewarded, and our success as a nation by some hardworking people has bred this idea that even if we dont work hard, we will still be successfull. if anybody has studied Louis XV im gonna make an analogy. in about 10 years, the bubble is gonna burst, and depending on how it works, personally i think it will fail, the american system is gonna go to the ****s, and were gonna be frantically trying to cover our asses. its gonna be like the situation facing Louis XV</p>
<p>It is WRONG for Donald Trump to be sipping a thousand dollar bottle of champagne in his highrise penthouse overlooking central park as a high school student in the Bronx struggles to buy books.</p>
<p>That’s exactly the point! In all big cities there is a sentiment of social darwinism and a feeling that, while they may occupy the same city, minorities and lower class residents are a human subspecies that will always exist as a parasite, commiting crimes and sucking the livelihood from the affluent, prada-wearing, briefcase-carrying whites.</p>
<p>And remember, don’t go to Brown, Dartmouth, or Swarthmore, because they’ll close your mind.</p>
<p>Wait, what?</p>
<p>California1600, I don’t doubt your good intentions (although your constant misspelling of Stanford makes me wonder), but it seems odd that you think that the Claremont colleges will “expand students’ minds”, while comparable colleges on the East Coast. Are you honestly saying that undergraduates will get a better education at Pitzer than at Brown? Even leaving that aside, Pomona is no cheaper than Swarthmore (for that matter, neither is Berkeley for out-of-state students), no bigger, no more focused on undergraduate education, and has no higher-ranked departments. Is it better just because it’s nowhere near the Ivy League schools?</p>
<p>I agree entirely with Cali’s sentiment, and all of the schools he mentioned are excellent places. He’s also very right that, for California residents, Berkeley is the best deal on the planet. But you can “expand your mind” at more than two schools on the East Coast, too.</p>
<p>i dont think its wrong, i think its life, if you want to move towards socialism, great, there are some great aspects, but i think then you have no dream, and everybody looses. personally one of my life goals, i only really have 2 right now, is to own an old german castle, and fix it up and everything. if world wide socialism was to come about, that might not be possible</p>