This comic is on one of the doors in my school. My teachers seem to like it when I argue with them about stuff. I don't like it nearly as much as they do. Meh.

Here's a question to think about. If all these students don't want to compete what right do we have to try and force them? Furthermore, why should we revolutionize our school system to become competitive? What will happen is we will victimize a lot of people who are not the best. What we don't know will happen, is that people will suddenly get smarter.
Are we the result of an outdated educational system? Are we failures? Did that "outdated" school system fail to produce intelligent people?
...Or perhaps is this entire issue just a bunch of drama?
They don't want to compete because as that comic clearly states, American have become more sheeplike. More willing to follow the shepherd of the hour and gt the information down that actually take a look at the problem.
But that's a generalization. I will admit to that. Though some schools are starting to improve. (Go ahead and call me biased for this but I still feel it can adequately be brought to attention.)
My high school, Timberline High School in Boise, Idaho, has only been around since 1992. But in that time, it has risen to the top 5% of schools in the
country. I have compared my yearbook to the graduation video and as far as I saw only two people in our senior class failed to graduate. And that's because they chose not to listen. Even when the teachers took the time to try and help them. The teachers there are really involved. Really passionate. They actually gave a hoot if the students were accurately absorbing the info. And, I can say this from what I saw in the halls and in my clases (where I'll admit I WASN'T as involved as I should have been) there was a sense of competition. People, even those who WEREN'T in some extracurricular activity, actually tried to be the best, even when there wasn't a carrot on the end of the stick we saw. Instead of wheeling out the info and saying "here it is, do what you will with it." It was continuously hammered that life outside of this wouldn't be this easy. hammer to the point where people GOT IT. People actually USED the resources available to get to a good place. We were an exception to the generalization the country's education system has become. It was a stroke of luck that the school was public.
Say what you will, but I realize full well that I lucked out. Especially since the main feeder schools there were nothing like that.
So really, after this I'm going to sit back and wish other school would get the picture and be more like mine. It won't happen in my time, I'm sure. But maybe one day.
(Again with the pointless ranting. ._. My apologies)