To be the Turtle or the Hare?

All of our life we are told of the story of the Turtle and the Hare where the Turtle wins. Slow and steady wins the race we are told. But here is an inexplicable argument about how our society tries to shape us into hares. Today we are given set milestones that we should reach before we progress with our lives. Its shined about everywhere like the lighting of the sun. Yet you are a night owl. So, the suns beams burn as if you are a vampire but everyone wants you to be in the sun.

When I was a child achievement to me was learning my ABC’S and understanding math. I am mediocre at best with math. But none of my math teacher’s tried to make an effort to shape my understanding of math until I hit eleventh grade where my geometry teacher related every problem to real life. A task that made learning fun again. But during our years of school we are bred to believe our scores on a test are who we are. Success is labeled by the score you make on a test not the amount of effort you make in class. We begin to be shaped into Hares. Hares that if their SAT scores are higher they can get into college for free or have less loans.

The problem this creates is our understanding of success is merited on the number we are labeled. Either special needs, dumb, or brilliant. Those that fall into the mediocre spectrum are able to get into college but averagely fall into nine to five jobs…