Lately I've been thinking about
efficiency of home schooling. That's because I saw a video in which a girl said
that she already graduated when she was just 15 and it was because she was home
schooling not because she was some kind of genius. For me it seems really
extraordinary because of her age. That on the other hand reminded me of the
time when I was trying to catch up with the chemistry material last summer
because I wanted to study with bio-chem class the following year. I remember
that in about 4 weeks I managed to learn nearly all the material which that
class did in half a year. Since I've been going to these chemistry classes I
realized that sometimes we are required to learn some stuff that is completely
useless like e.g. handbook definitions from which we are questioned on every
lesson in front of class. Now I'm not so sure if I did the right thing to study
chemistry at school because I actually might be able to study it with the same
exam results and less stress for my own.
GUERNICA As a conclusion of the topic about Picasso I decided to write about Guernica. It's a painting which Pablo painted in 1937 and now it's known at the global scale. It's probably one of the most famous paintings of Picasso. It is 349 cm high and 776 cm wide, so it's more like a mural painting but it's not on the wall but on a huge canvas. The whole process of creating was documented by a photographer who he dated then, Dora Maar. It can be know admired in the National Museum of Art in Madrid with her photos. The history of the masterpiece refers to the bomb that was dropped at a village in the North of Spain, Guernica. It caused a lot of damage including killing many civils. This was actually the first time when the artist painted something as a reaction to a political problem. Guernica shows the tragedy of war and suffering of the innocent. We can see there,...
Makes you think about what the purpose of school really is, doesn't it?
OdpowiedzUsuńIn my opinion school is not made to give you all the knowledge but to to teach you how to lern lots of informations. It will be usefull on the univerity :)
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