A Neugatorial

What Canadian city grew out of Samuel de Champlain's trading post along the St. Lawrence?

Quebec. Now you know.

So I do own a page a day calender. I do this every year. Last year I learned a new word everyday. I remember maybe two of them. The year before that I had the "365 Best Golf Holes" Calender. It was quite fun. However this years calender is by far the greatest. "Trivial Pursuit Page-a-day." The question above is the question for May 8th - today. Every day I lean in real close and tear away the previous day. Alas, there is an invigorating and challenging question for me to chew on. After sufficient chewing I begin to swallow the question down - basically swallowing my pride enough to flip over the page and look at the answer. At this moment of great enlightenment I do not relish the glory of gained knowledge, but I am disappointed at my lack thereof. However, this seems very childish now, in hindsight. I am disappointed in myself for not knowing the city that originated from Champlain's trading post on the St. Lawrence River. I suppose the only reason I would be disappointed is somewhere in the back of my mind I think it would be crazy delicious to just know the answers.

(this blog will be somewhat of a Goosebumps "create your own ending" style. Therefore, if you are sufficiently nourished by my observation of my page a day calender then simply click on "art vampeir the ant" and read something else. However, if you'd like to choose the second door and venture further into my convoluted brain and watch me flounder as I try to draw this out into some broad truth, then continue reading.)

The fact of the matter is that I am very insufficiently happy with my education. I do not feel that I have a great grasp of most of the material I've been taught. Therefore, I would in most cases consider myself underdeveloped when it comes to straight knowledge. However when did knowledge every become something to quantify? When did this become a game rather than an endeavor. I'm just frustrated by this because there is such a pressure put on us, youth, to achieve. No, I don't mean learn - we must learn better. We must learn in a way that advances us past most everyone else. AP classes and high grades on SAT's are expected now. What ever happened to allowing kids to learn the information in the way they best engage material? Why can't we accept that kids don't all learn the same? Why do we grade every child by the same fundamental guidelines, when we openly acknowledge that all kids are individuals?