Quentin Tarantino
Five out of the seven classes I take every day are a waste of my time. I want to pursue filmmaking and I’m planning on going to college for it, so why am I putting time into things that don’t interest me, fuel my filmmaking, or help expand my knowledge of film. These two classes that help me pursue my future are as follows, Film 2 and English. The other five are forty minutes each, that’s 200 minutes everyday and 586 ⅔ hours every year. Why am I forced to put that much time every year into subjects and topics that won’t help me do what I want to do. The majority of my education at New Trier is pointless and a waste of time. Creative careers see people who want to follow them dropout of high school and not attend college. Jay-Z realized that high school wasn’t worth his time so he packed his backpack and left, but no one looks at Jay-Z and says “he should be back in school”. This is obviously because Jay-Z is Jay-Z and knew what he wanted to do and did it. But he isn’t alone, Harry Styles dropped out of high school, and when it comes to acting the list gets even bigger: Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, etc. The point is that these people didn’t need to waste time studying Trigonometry to become successful or happy. These people had to take a massive risk in order to become successful. This is not welcomed in today’s society as people feel chained to their school. Ta-Nehisi Coates feels the same saying “If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left”(25). This binding to school makes the story of Quentin Tarantino even more impressive. Tarantino is a famous director is most notable for the movies Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, Django Unchained, and many more. Quentin Tarantino is famous for his movies but many also know his story, the story of a nonconformist, rebel, and a hard worker who knew what he wanted. Tarantino had a love for film at the age of 4 and proceeded to not study, ditch school, or not do his homework to instead watch movies and read comics. At the age of 15 Tarantino dropped out of high school and went on to make some of the most culturally influential movies the world had ever seen. Tarantino was a curious boy who knew what he wanted and when school didn’t provide that he left. Coates knew his aspirations of what he wanted to do outgrew what school could give him. His curiosity and Introspectiveness on issues surrounding “the Dream” wasn’t anything his school was teaching him, “I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity”(27). Most schools teach mainly nonsense and appeal to a giant crowd, because of this a majority of students feel that what they’re learning is unimportant. A common phrase were told is to “‘grow up and be somebody’”(26). This path is commonly associated with staying in school, studying hard, going to a prestigious college, then graduating college and starting a family. But, people won’t want to follow this “path” if school isn’t teaching them what they want to learn in the first place. Quentin Tarantino carved out his own path and didn’t let the curriculum to waste his time. The majority of our school carries will be wasted on trivial information, why should we wait around and endure these classes when we can pursue what we truly want to do.
Five out of the seven classes I take every day are a waste of my time. I want to pursue filmmaking and I’m planning on going to college for it, so why am I putting time into things that don’t interest me, fuel my filmmaking, or help expand my knowledge of film. These two classes that help me pursue my future are as follows, Film 2 and English. The other five are forty minutes each, that’s 200 minutes everyday and 586 ⅔ hours every year. Why am I forced to put that much time every year into subjects and topics that won’t help me do what I want to do. The majority of my education at New Trier is pointless and a waste of time. Creative careers see people who want to follow them dropout of high school and not attend college. Jay-Z realized that high school wasn’t worth his time so he packed his backpack and left, but no one looks at Jay-Z and says “he should be back in school”. This is obviously because Jay-Z is Jay-Z and knew what he wanted to do and did it. But he isn’t alone, Harry Styles dropped out of high school, and when it comes to acting the list gets even bigger: Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, etc. The point is that these people didn’t need to waste time studying Trigonometry to become successful or happy. These people had to take a massive risk in order to become successful. This is not welcomed in today’s society as people feel chained to their school. Ta-Nehisi Coates feels the same saying “If the streets shackled my right leg, the schools shackled my left”(25). This binding to school makes the story of Quentin Tarantino even more impressive. Tarantino is a famous director is most notable for the movies Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Bastards, Django Unchained, and many more. Quentin Tarantino is famous for his movies but many also know his story, the story of a nonconformist, rebel, and a hard worker who knew what he wanted. Tarantino had a love for film at the age of 4 and proceeded to not study, ditch school, or not do his homework to instead watch movies and read comics. At the age of 15 Tarantino dropped out of high school and went on to make some of the most culturally influential movies the world had ever seen. Tarantino was a curious boy who knew what he wanted and when school didn’t provide that he left. Coates knew his aspirations of what he wanted to do outgrew what school could give him. His curiosity and Introspectiveness on issues surrounding “the Dream” wasn’t anything his school was teaching him, “I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity”(27). Most schools teach mainly nonsense and appeal to a giant crowd, because of this a majority of students feel that what they’re learning is unimportant. A common phrase were told is to “‘grow up and be somebody’”(26). This path is commonly associated with staying in school, studying hard, going to a prestigious college, then graduating college and starting a family. But, people won’t want to follow this “path” if school isn’t teaching them what they want to learn in the first place. Quentin Tarantino carved out his own path and didn’t let the curriculum to waste his time. The majority of our school carries will be wasted on trivial information, why should we wait around and endure these classes when we can pursue what we truly want to do.
