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Most people believe happiness does not come from education. I would enjoy education more if it was focused on my major, and more active instead of sitting listening to three hour lectures. Education is a gift of knowledge my gift was being creative. If education was based on my major, I would be satisfied attending school more often. I am not someone who loves to read, write or take pleasure in solving problems. If I did I would be devoted to education. Whenever I heard the words education I think of boredom, hard work and stress.

            Most teenage kids think education is terrible. They would call it something “not fun” we all know it’s not fun to study, but it is just something we all have to adapt to. Ken Robinson had said “every kid has talent but we just squander them.” I believe this is true we are educating kids out of their creativity. If education was giving people a choice of what they want to learn then they would enjoy education more. I am a person who loves to draw and I was filled with imaginations when I was little, I also think education took my creativity away from me. The more I focused on school work the more I stopped sketching. If education was more focused on my major then I would be more focused in school.

Education should be given people the subjects they want to learn from, not what they are told to learn. Forcing someone into doing what they don’t like can cause a hot state that makes them cheat off a test or even cutting a class because the class give them too much stress or they just can't handle it. The subject that I most lack of was history, my teacher constantly gave us numerous amounts of test to take and most of the question was not though to us. I had to do something about it or I would fail the class. It got me to go into a hot state to cheat off a test. If teachers gave students lessons on what would be on the test and how would you pass it. It would have students stress free and be prepared for a test. Tal Ben Shahar who tells us about the drowning model is also related to stress coming from school. Drowning model is when you feel everything that is terrible is piling up and over powering you. The drowning model cause students to cut class, thinking it would save them from all the over whelming stress from it.

People believe happiness is not education because of what they have experienced with the drowning model and the hot state. If students were never to have the experience of facing stress or boredom then they wouldn’t think of education as a bad thing. I always hoped getting educated is going to be easy but it never turns out that way. I would like it more if everything was made simpler, stress free and having one on one tutor can help make education more simple and easy. Then students would be more satisfied getting educated.