Why is school boring?

What I hated about school was having to wake up early, I didn’t really find it boring. Some subjects I was not good at or had little interest, so I hated those classes, but not sure I would call it boring.

@JLeslie I hate getting up in the morning too… I just wanna lie in bed all day.

If you are fundamentally incurious you will be bored by learning.

Because you’re not interested in what’s being taught. Because even if you were interested in what’s being taught, it isn’t being taught in an engaging way. Because you don’t see any relevance to what you’re learning.

It’s a possible multitude of reasons my boy.

How old are you, by the way?

School isn’t boring.

How old are you?

“School” isn’t boring. It has no attributes other than the ones you give it. So “good”, “bad”, “fun”, “awful” ... and “boring” ... are your ideas, not the school’s.

Change your mind to change your attitude.

@Gadgetmo For me not lie in bed all day, but I have a lot of trouble waking up and getting ready very early in the morning, I hated it then, and I hate it now. My senior year in high school I was able to sleep an hour later and I got great grades and showed up every day.

School is meant to be boring. playtime is after school and this gives you somenting to look forward to. i went through this, we all go through this. its just part of life. you are in school to learn something about your country, how things work, how to write a sentence, how to mix with your friends, and to keep you physically fit. remember, the teacher is teaching the golden rules of life. its boring, thats true. i got over it and so will you.

Think he got caught playing online at school?

Because your teachers are people who weren’t good at anything else, so they locked in a job that would never fire them….?

Because your teachers were once starry-eyed optimists who got beaten down by a lifetime of pandering to whiny brats, controlling parents, and megalomaniacal administrators…?

Because the No Child Left Behind act forces school systems to teach to tests…?

Because none of us really have attention spans that long and school is structured inefficiently…?

Lots of possibilities, here.

I think it is because they have stopped teaching kids how to learn and instead are focused on stuffing their inert heads with data for the next Federal Funds testing.

The interactive quality of learning has gone the way of the Do-Do.

To illustrate: When a kid comes up with the “right” answer in the “wrong” way it is discounted as if it is of no value. Personally, I think a child who “thinks outside the box” is to be celebrated and encouraged. Schools do not. So they have squelched a child’s natural problem solving skills in favor of conformity.

Unfortunately this can become the global mindset of the kids and will not serve them well in their “real” lives.

@jellyfishguy Are you able to choose electives you are interested in?

Trick question.
It’s not boring.

@Sarcasm: I don’t know. I’m effectively in 18th grade, in school by my own choice, and I still get bored sometimes.

http://www.dump.com/2010/01/02/strangely-enough-there-is-wisdom-in-these-words/

Some of it was boring; some of it wasn’t. It depended on the subject, the teacher, and yes, the time of day. I find the totality of the statement disturbing. If you find it all boring, you might want to look within.

I had a blast when going to school.
Even when it was boring it was cool.

I would go back to that any day of the week. Enjoy THAT boredom while it lasts.

Because it’s created by bureaucrats, micro-managed by a bloated administration and taught by people who are willing to work for very little money.

Had you been born 300 years ago it is unlikely you would be able to even read. Knowledge was for the rich who hired people to educate their children – and not on the basis of whether they were exciting teachers either.

Regardless of whether it is boring or not you are responsible for extracting as much knowledge as you can from it.

It depended on the school I went to.

Traditional school was boring, probably becuase many of my teachers had a vested interest in maintaining order rather than imparting actual learning, or making any of what they were teaching relevant to us. It was a lot of “Read pages 234–259 and answer the Qs at the end of the chapter.” Bleah.

The non-traditional Montessori-based arts school I went to was fun! We sang song and wrote plays and created artworks about our subjects. We weren’t forced to sit at our desks until the bell rang because there were no desks! Nor did we have everything lined up just so, or learn things by rote.

There was a lot of hands on learning about scientific and mathematical concepts as opposed to rote learning of multiplication tables. My 3rd and 4th grade classrooms had long tables with some chairs if we didn’t want to write on the floor and cubbyholes to hold our supplies, but the rest of the time we could sprawl out on big pillows and read, or play games and so on. Still learned my fractions and how to write in cursive.

because it’s school. why else?

A deep misunderstanding of what education should and could be. If asked you good questions you were interested in and gave you space to answer them, you would learn and you would like it.

Sometimes I’m so lazy.. or most of the time I’m so lazy in class, I’m glad the teachers are boring. I like the teachers who just blab and blab all day long. I don’t like the teachers who try to get everybody to participate and make it entertaining, because really, I’d rather it boring, I don’t want to move, and I’m usually not in the mood.

I find that when I’m listening to what is being said though, it’s not that boring, but most of the time, it’s wayy too hard to listen. I day dream 75% of the year. maybe less…

It’s always been like that:

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

School is boring for those who’s career path will include lots and lots of dirt OR the phrase “Would you like fries with that?”

thanks for all your help guys