here is the question:
The things we learn from our teachers, our books, our research, or our experiments can be lessons for life, but life often supplements, and even contradicts, what we learn through formal schooling. Tell us about a personal situation or event in which your perspective on yourself and your education was challenged and perhaps changed.
Look, you seriously can't come up with anything? And forget the distinction between "grades" and "learning". So typical. The religion one is not a bad idea but a bit out there.
Think back on your life. What is the moment when you said, "WTF is this"? What was the moment when you realized that something was terribly wrong with the world. The moment when you woke up and said, things shouldn't be this way. Everything I've been told is a lie. The books, the research, all the crap, it really tells me nothing about myself or who I am. And after that the knowledge that what does matter somewhat is being in a place and experiencing people, the sounds, the smells, the sights and knowing that "life" is much more than a random forumal or some guy sitting down and writing a philosophical treatise about the nature of reality.
Think about math classes. When you learned Algebra, did it make sense to you? Did you know why 2+2 was 4? What is this abstraction. when you look at people, that's not what one usually thinks but rather a sort of knowledge and feeling of isness.
So write about that experience. The moment you realized that society was an illusion, but a pwoerful one. The moment when you saw that you are feeble and die and that things are meaningless. The moment also when you accepted responsibility for your actions and committed yourself to a path of truth and honor since the other way was inherently and instrumentally faulty.
You've spent most of your life learning how to survive within this screwy system we call the USA. What if reality is waay different than what people think and theorize about. Write about that experience and how you came to the realization and its consequences, not about the difference between grades and learning or an emotional upheaval as you reject incumbent religious baggage.
Cheers !
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