Why do people just not care about high school?

halcyonheather
Thu, 05 Dec 2013 22:41:49 +0000

Fun is always not as important as grades



Being happy and helping others be happy are more important than anything else. People get good grades either because it makes them happy now (learning, sense of accomplishment) or they think it will make them happy in the long term (good career, using knowledge/skills to benefit humanity), and the idea of being happy in the long term makes them happy now. Outside of this context, grades and school mean absolutely nothing.

(Also, having fun and getting good grades aren’t mutually exclusive, and I don’t just mean that in a “because you can do both” sort of way. There doesn’t need to be a dichotomy. It’s true that there’s nothing fun about grades in themselves, but having a sense of accomplishment is fun, and learning about a subject you care about is fun.)