Was reading this book just now.
"Living, Loving & Learning" by Leo F. Buscaglia.
You could say i was poking around in my mom's library book. xD
but i found something very interesting, that i agree with, and have to share with the people of earth~!
Its this section of the book i found.
See, coz my mom folded a whole lot of pages, and i went to the first one and there it was.
I shall type it out for the world to see.
You MIGHT find that you agree. It's long, but really motivational. : D
Lemme get one thing straight first: I dont like it when people call others CHEEM. Especially iris. What if her vocab's exceptionally good? its ok to make fun a while, i mean, she doesnt really mind. but dont push it. really. because even if she doesnt mind, i do. it can get too irritating. i mean, everytime she rebutts a teachers point, you go: "see, iris is so CHEEM". everytime someone gives a well-explained, elaborate point, you go: "see, they're so CHEEM". its not nice, sometimes. you dont even HEAR what they've got to say. even when iris is making a perfectly OKAY, UNCHEEM point, you have to go point it out. i mean, grow up.
wow. that was... angry. but some people, especially some of them around me, push it too far. sometimes i cant take it. but... its ok if its done when you REALLY dont understand what shes saying... i mean, iris doesnt really mind what people think. but i mind if it happens all the time. wow. i am a protective wife. o_o
So here it is. dont call me cheem ,coz i'll kill you. its from a book anyway. xD


I always tell the story of the animal school, a fabulous story that educators have had around for years. We laugh about it but we never do anything about it. A rabbit, bird, fish, squirrel, duck, and so on, all decided to start a school. Everybody sat down to write a curriculum. The rabbit insisted that running had to be in the curriculum. The bird insisted that flying be in the curriculum. The fish insisted that swimming be in the curriculum. The squirrel insisted that perpendicular tree climbing be in the curriculum. All the other animals wanted their specialty to be in the curriculum, too, so they put everything in and then made the glorious mistake of insisting that all the animals take all of the courses. The rabbit was magnificent in running; nobody could run like the rabbit. But they insisted that it was good intellectual and emotional discipline to teach the rabbit flying. So they insisted that the rabbit learn to fly and they put him on this branch and said, "Fly, rabbit!" And the poor old thing jumped off, broke a leg and fractured his skull. He became brain damaged and then he couldn't run very well, either. So instead of an Ain running, he got a C in running. And he got a D in flying because he was trying. And the curriculum committee was happy. The same way with the bird - he could fly like a freak all over the place, do loops and loops, and he was making an A. But they insisted that this bird burrow holes in the ground like a gopher. Of course he broke his wings and everything else and then he couldn't fly. But they were perfectly happy to give him a C in flying, and so on. And you know who the Valedictorian of the graduating class was? A mentally retarded eel, because he could do everything fairly well. The owl dropped out and now votes "no" on all tax elections that have to do with schools.
We know this is wrong, yet nobody does anything about it. You may be a genius. You may be one of the greatest writers in the world but you can't get into a university unless you can pass trigonometry. For what! You can't get out of high school without passing this and this and this and this! You can't get out of elementary school without doing this and this! It isn't a matter of who you are. Look at the list of dropouts: William Faulkner, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Edison. They couldn't face school. It was a bummer. "I don't want to learn perpendicular tree climbing. I'm never going to climb a tree perpendicularly. I'm a bird. I can fly to the top of the tree without having to do that." "Never mind, it's good intellectual discipline."

LOOK AT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM~ aah.
I mean, what if you're good at art or sports? and theres no subject for that which counts in that lousy GPA.
D:
OH WELL.
It was inspiring. But i still have to do well.
God, help me, please. D:


Signing off,
Laura :DD

Her name is Laura Ysetta Mendoza Raquepo[go on. pronounce it]
SHE studies in DUNMAN HIGH SCHOOL ThebestestschoolEVER.
SHE's in ONE-LYSTRA.
HER CCA is SYMPHONIC BAND|trombone
SHE loves chocolate and is a complete RETARD. yay.
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[X]Jonas Brothers Jonas Brothers Album [YESSSSSS]
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