My Ideal Educational System

This text is suppose to talk about me. Let's ask ourselves first, who are we?
We are robots.

I've been tormented so many years about the meaning of life. What is life really? Do we know why we're there? We might be asking ourselves this question forever but the problem is, nobody is sure what to think about all this. I'm not sinister by saying this, I'm simply saying the sad truth. Maybe the best way to stop this gloomy spirit of mine is to just don't ask to myself these kinds of questions. The thing is, I can't stop myself. It helps me remember we are not just some sort of androids being control by some powerful brains. It helps me remember I am human, and if I truly am a human, I have a right of thoughts. People seem to forget that nowadays. My right of thoughts is the most important thing to me. I like to call it the pledge of subsistence. It helps me feel alive. It proves me I'm a human...a human, living...something. But what? That I don't know. Explaining the vanity of our life seems like a harsh task, well F*** yeah, it is! Who are we living for? What are we living? What is the purpose of humanity's existence? In our actual society, people do not think no more, people apply.

They are robots.
We are robots.

Specialisation and application are the best way to kill creativity. I am evolving in an educational system based on application and specialisation… What are we learning in school? Not very more than equations and grammatical rules. In school, human beings are treated like robots: “a2 + b2 = c 2, add an “s” when the noun is plural.” These are simples’ step by step instruction that don’t need any intelligence to apply. We are no more than a machine.

In history, humans who changed the world with new theories or with new ideas were generally not merged from an “applicational” educational system. Why? Cause they were inventors, creators. “Inventer, c’est penser à coté”, said Albert Einstein. You can’t get something new without thinking of something you’ve never been asked to think before. Humans are capable of abstract thinking. This is the main difference between a man and a computer. Maybe we should start using our special ability.

In my ideal educational system, equations should be a support to comprehension. Comprehension should always be the main objective of education. Robots don’t understand, they can’t create new equations, they can’t do something else that what they are programmed for. Modern society is a robot society. You go to school to have a degree. Your degree is your software. With your software, you are able to do one thing: to apply. As long as you don’t get a new software, you will run the same codes. You are a machine. You are unable to do other things then to read your lines of codes. But there’s one thing you need to know, you are badly used; you are able of such great things. You’re not just another brick in the wall.


Specialisation leads to a degradation of creativity. People who create are not stick to their profession. They are able to pick ideas from other domains, to create links between different theories. Relations between different domains must be more open. By “opening gates”, we will increase curiosity and then, eventually, increase creativity. To encourage relationship between specialists will turn the specialists into some sort of a generalist of everything. They will be no more closed to the bucket and they will be able to have a generalist point of sight. I think encouraging intellectual relationship between human beings is the simplest way to increase the level of creativity.

With the world focused on cheap things from Asia, creativity is a must need to our society if we still want to exist in 50 years. Stop applying, think about it, and start creating, Mr. Robot, if you are still able to…