Here we go.

Okay so first post (not that anyone would be reading this anyway). This is more of a personal project seeing as this blog is one in a million that very few people actually view. But I'm going to start posting (hopefully) every day. So here goes nothin'.

My first topic correlates with the actual title of the blog. Curiosity. (And I'm about to get up on my soap box here so bear with me.) Apparently society now-a-days is under the impression that by spending hours in front of the TV, going to websites that solve your math problems for you and using SparkNotes for every english assignment is going to be the most beneficial path to take (?). Personally, I couldn't disagree more. But I have a feeling that there is a specific reason that they feel this way.
I'll present this through example: when I was still in public school, one of our units was Shakespeare. Needless to say when the teacher told the class we were studying this, it was not well recieved by the rest of the class. It's sad and almost frightening that the teenagers in this class had no desire or drive whatsoever. If anything the drive I saw in most of them was powered by the desire to simply pass the class so that they could get a good grade/get into college. Now, it is no secret that students use SparkNotes and No Fear Shakespeare during these units. In fact, it is encouraged by the teachers to do so (seeing as reading through translations or summaries can significantly help in the process of understanding the script). Here's the catch: the teachers encourage students to do this AFTER they read the assigned chapters/scenes. Because it is considered "homework" students don't have the desire to actually read it (they skip straight to SparkNotes and No Fear). But they are stuck in a school for eight hours every day doing busy work so why should they? Honestly, after school all I wanted to do was relax and do what I wanted to do. As much as I love learning about new things, eight hours a day of monotonous work over each topic gets to be a little much. And then on top of that students are expected to go home and do three more hours of this? Your brain is fried by the end of a school day. Unfortunately, public school has a tendency to present topics in a monotonous way that leaves the students uninterested and does not allow their minds that intellectual freedom that we crave as human beings. In other words, curiosity is put on the back-burner for a while and teenagers get used to this a little too quickly.

This is only one of the many tangents about curiosity that I could go on and on about so I will probably post about this again and address a different aspect of it. But the basic point is that public school does not take it away but makes it incredibly hard for one to be curious. Even with the most interesting topics, all of the monotonous work and the lectures make it so it is difficult to have the desire to seek out more information on said topic.

Ok... I'm getting off my soap box now. ;)