Pineapple

This pineapple has been sitting there for a few days, and now it appears to be ripe enough to eat. I learned this little trick a while back, and it's been quite useful. Pretty much, you just take a hold of one of the leaves, and pull on it. If the leaf comes out with ease, it's ready to eat. If not, let it sit for a while longer.

Now as cool as that may be, it's only one little factoid out of the billions available on the internet today. As I was writing the LPI in school today, I started thinking about our school system. Ever since I was in elementary school, I've always kinda questioned the school system as a whole. I'm not just talking about how certain teachers are being unreasonable or unfair; everyone does that. I'm talking about the fundamentals of education in our society. I don't want to get too far in depth about it, since I still have things to do before going to bed. But in short, schools have been teaching with the same methods for decades: shove information down students' throats, evaluate memorized facts, and give out sheets of paper with numbers written on them.

It made sense when people didn't have access to knowledge aside from schools. Then came the library, but it acted as more of a supplement to the existing system. But now the internet shows up, and everything changes. Theorecially, the internet has no limits in terms of storred information. Every fact that can be learned in the average classroom in a year can most likely be found somewhere on the internet. It also happens to be free and accessible anywehre in the world. For that matter, all of my knowledge of photography has come from everywhere except the classroom. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I'm growing more and more frustrated with school, not from the coursework, but from the school system's refusal to advance with the rest of society.