I have a lot to say on the Eno talk and have made quite a few notes I need to look through to present a bit more of an understanding of what I have learnt and what Eno said. For now I have my own thoughts and views of what I thought of the talk and what I took away.
Why does no one question society, we all just seem to accept the constraints. We have decided we should all go to school get a job get married and everyone should do this. Surely it would be better to live and do what we want to do with laws in place just not have our lives planned out and made for us through society and education. We are all just expected to do as were told and from a very young age were almost being brainwashed into what we should go onto do, if there’s a shortage of an “important” profession then we may be told subtly that these are the best professions to go into. I feel I myself had a much bigger potential at school but I never found it interesting enough to actually do anything about it. My grades were expected to be much higher than the actual outcome but I came across as lazy because I couldn’t get enthusiastic about the subjects I was learning because it makes it easier for a society to teach one thing, one book to study in english because we have decided that’s the best one to show the understanding of the level. Marking may take longer but the structure would still be the same if we got to learn choose our own studies, teach the structure not the specifics. Most of the people in my year country wide will be able to give you a description of the book Of Mice and Men, I agree it’s a brilliant book but when it comes down to it I feel I could’ve achieved so much more from writing about something I was much more enthusiastic about. How can you teach enthusiasm?
