Why I Hated School [bj_WhA0xQkk]

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Today I would like to talk about my

experience at school and why I didn't like

school very much. So to avoid confusion,

just let me quickly explain the school

system here in England. We have primary

school, which is the first school you go

to. I think it's between ages 5 and 11.

And then when you're 11, you go to

secondary school, which is from ages 11 to

16. So as you can imagine, I'm not a very

highly educated person, and I didn't

really enjoy my time at school very much.

I wasn't a good student, I wasn't popular,

and I was very miserable at school most of

the time. When I was at primary school

between the ages 5 and 10, or 5 and 11,

I actually quite enjoyed going to school.

I had lots of friends, I had a lot of fun,

some of the classes were fun and

interesting, and the teachers were nice.

Things started to go downhill after I left

primary school and entered secondary

school. It's almost as if I completely

changed as a person. I went from being

this energetic, mischievous troublemaker

who had quite a lot of friends and was

fairly popular and people used to think I

was funny. I went from that to becoming

this shy, withdrawn, introverted weirdo

who just didn't like anyone. So after

leaving primary school, I first went to

this secondary school called the

Cornwallis, and I was quite happy at the

Cornwallis actually because I moved there

with a bunch of my friends from primary

school, so I didn't feel all alone,

didn't feel scared, I didn't feel nervous

about having to make new friends because I

just went there with my friends that I

already had. The Cornwallis was a pretty

good school where nice people went to,

and the teachers were quite good. They

were good at teaching and they were good

at controlling the classroom, and it was a

nice environment. I didn't feel in danger.

I felt quite safe. Unfortunately, because

we moved house at that time during that

year, the Cornwallis school was a bit far

from our new house, and it was a bit

awkward for my mum to drive me there. So

my dad ended up moving me to a different

school that was nearby. This school was

called Swadlens, and it was terrible.

Swadlens was located in this kind of

low-class area. It was surrounded by this

neighborhood where factory workers and

truck drivers, kind of like blue-collar

workers, would live. The people that lived

in that council area were just kind of

low-class and kind of rough, and the

children were no different, and most of

the kids at Swadlins were very rough and

low-class and loud and vulgar. Most of the

kids that went to Swadlins would grow up

to do jobs like laying tarmac or

rubbish men, bin collectors, or factory

workers. You know, just kind of manual

labor, construction site kind of jobs.

That's what most of them ended up doing.

Now, there's nothing wrong with manual

labor and construction work, but it was

just a different kind of background from

where I came from. The kind of kids I went

to school with at primary school, just,

they were just kind of different. They

were better spoken, their parents had

better jobs that didn't involve laboring

outside in the hot sun. Now, I don't think

I sound very posh, but compared to the

other kids who went to Swaelands, I

probably do sound a little bit posh. 90%

of the kids at Swaelands would speak like

this. Oh, what the fuck did you just say

to me, mate? You just started a fight.

You want some, do you? Or should Pencil

sharpener. Are you calling my mum a slag?

I'm gonna knock you out, mate. Maybe I'm

exaggerating a little bit, but that's what

it felt like. I felt like I was just

surrounded by idiots most of the time.

Most of the kids there just had, had this

really horrible low-class sounding accent,

and they were just constantly swearing all

the time. I felt so out of place in

Swadlins. I felt so intimidated by all

these rough hooligan gangster kids.

And I found it very difficult to make

friends. It took me a couple of years

before I started making my friendship

circle. It was just so weird coming from

my primary school and the Corn Wallace

where people spoke fairly decently and

people were well mannered and you could

tell they came from well-off families who

had decent jobs. And to make matters

worse, the teachers at Swadlins just

weren't very good. I'm sure they're very

intelligent and clever and knew their

subjects very well, But they were just

awful at controlling the classroom,

maintaining discipline and order. The kids

would just be nonstop talking to each

other, messing around and laughing and not

listening to what the teacher was saying.

And half the teachers there just lost

control of the classroom, had no power or

authority. Some of the teachers just gave

up and tried to ignore the noisy kids and

tried to just focus on the quiet kids who

were interested in learning. I actually

kind of felt sorry for some of the

teachers. They just gave up. One of them,

I remember one of them just put his head

down on the table like he wanted to cry or

something. There was one teacher who used

to sleep in his car, and the kids found

out and then started making fun of him for

it. There were only a few teachers that

the kids were genuinely scared of, and

some of the other teachers just resorted

to shouting. So half the time they were

shouting at the noisy kids, and then the

other half they were trying to teach. So

it was very difficult paying attention to

what the teacher was saying or even

learning anything in most of these

classrooms. And I wasn't really interested

in any of the subjects. Most of the

subjects were just stupid. I don't know if

it was any— I don't know if school is any

different nowadays, but back when I went

to school, we had topics like religious

studies, geography, history,

maths, and science, and I wasn't

interested in any of these topics. It just

felt like they were trying to teach us all

of these pointless, useless things. And

now that I'm, I'm an adult, I don't use

any of the things that I was taught at

school. Do I use Pythagoras' theory in my

life? Do I use trigonometry? Do I use

French? It just felt like for 6 years they

were forcing us to learn all of these

things that none of us use probably in our

daily lives. I don't feel like I learned

anything useful at school except maybe

basic stuff like English grammar or

multiplication and basic mathematics. It

all just feels like it was a complete

waste of time. As you can imagine, I

wasn't a very popular kid either because I

was so quiet, and people could probably

sense that I didn't really like anyone at

the school because I felt like I didn't

fit in, and also because I looked

different. Being half Asian, I looked very

non-English. That, that was a big reason

why people kind of picked on me. So the

first few years at Swaelands weren't very

fun. I found it very difficult to, to meet

anyone that I kind of liked and wanted to

be friends with, and then most of the

other kids just thought I was a weirdo.

And during most of the classes, I wasn't

even paying attention to what the teacher

was saying because it was so boring. I

would just spend most of the class just

doodling in my textbooks. My textbooks

were just full of sketches and stickmen

and weird little drawings. I used to get

in trouble for this because the teacher

would find out and then put me in

detention for making a mess on my books.

And also my eyesight was getting bad.

Around the age of 14, my eyesight was

getting really bad. I couldn't even see

the, the board that the teacher was

writing on, especially if I sat right at

the back of the class. And usually you had

to, you had to write down what the teacher

was writing. I couldn't even see what they

were writing. I didn't really have any

interest in any of the topics or subjects,

and I wasn't really naturally gifted at

anything. So as you can imagine, I failed

all of my exams. I got some pretty bad

results. We have these exams called GCSEs

that you take when you're 16 at the end of

secondary school, and I think I got a C in

English, a C in maths, and a C in science.

And then everything else like religious

studies, history, geography, I just got Fs

and Es and fails. And then after you

finish secondary school, you're supposed

to study A-levels for 2 years. So you do

your GCSEs and then you take your

A-levels, which takes 2 years to study.

And then after you finish A-levels,

you're supposed to go to university. So I

did try to study for the A-levels, and I

took a year at this different school, and

I became completely addicted to World of

Warcraft when I was about 16 or 17, and

that just completely destroyed any chances

of me focusing on studies or studying,

and I failed all of the exams after the

first year, and I just gave up and didn't

go back. So when everyone else was

studying for A-levels and trying to get

into university, I ended up just getting a

job working in a kitchen at this pub

restaurant kind of hotel place, and I

worked there for a year and a half trying

to save up money so I could go to Japan.

And when everyone was working hard in

university studying for their degree,

I was in Japan just messing around with

Japanese girls. And to be honest, I don't

really regret not going to university. A

lot of people went to university and And

they got degrees that weren't very useful,

or they ended up getting jobs that were

completely unrelated to what they studied

for in university. They still had massive

student loans, like £30,000 or something

crazy, that took them years and years and

years to pay back. And I'm kind of glad

that I didn't have to go to university. I

didn't end up with loads of student debt,

didn't waste my time studying something

that would end up not being very useful.

And I had a nice time in Japan, so yeah,

that's great. Sometimes people ask me,

why don't you go back to school? Why don't

you do some kind of course? And I did try

when I was about 23. I went and signed up

to this college and I tried studying

computer science and I absolutely hated

it. It was so boring. I hated being in the

class— classroom. I hated the classroom

environment. I hated having a teacher

telling me what to do and treating me like

a kid. I'm just not a very good student.

I'm not good at being in a classroom and

obeying a teacher. If there's something

I'm really interested in that I really

want to learn, I'd rather just watch some

tutorials on YouTube or read some articles

and learn it on my own by myself.

I think if I had my own kids, I'd be kind

of worried about sending them to school.

Number one, because I don't feel like they

would be learning anything important at

school. They'll just be taught a bunch of

useless things that probably won't even

help them in life, and then they might get

picked on by the other kids and then

become sad and lonely like me. Well, I

don't really feel like that's something I

have to worry about since it doesn't seem

like there's any girls willing to have my

children. Sometimes it makes me feel a bit

sad that hundreds of thousands, maybe even

millions of females have come across my

channel and seen my videos, And not even

one female would be willing to be the

mother of my children. That's kind of sad.