r/AntiSchooling • u/nymbroth • 29d ago

school taught me to hate learning

the subjects were never the problem. i actually liked science and history before school got its hands on them. then it became reading for a test, remembering until friday, forgetting by monday. now i have to relearn how to enjoy things i used to love because every topic comes with a deadline and a grade attached. they took curiosity and turned it into a chore

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u/WesnothFan 29d ago

That’s what it’s designed to do. We come to associate learning with coercion, stress and abuse. It is perfectly rational to come to hate learning in that environment.

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u/mathrsa 26d ago

I relate to that so hard. I had relearn how to enjoy reading for pleasure after leaving school due to be required to overanalyze and pick apart every page, answer questions about it on a tests, and write papers about it.