Vindication
VindicateTo clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof.
I was vindicated as of 5.20 p.m., Wednesday, the 16th of November, which marked the last day of my mental imprisonment. no longer will examinations and tests plague me. no longer will teachers chase me for work. no longer will i be forced to confine myself to book and note. no longer will i be subject to the tyranny of numbers and facts, severing whatever shred of sanity that i might have had. and no longer will i ever have to answer to that institute which has caused countless students immeasurable anguish, that which is also known in some cultures as Cambridge.
Because for some the closure we have all been waiting for so longingly has finally arrived, and for the rest it is fast approaching, so take heart, for many days of delicious boredom await you as your prize of enduring twelve gruelling years of, for want of a better word, 'education'.
Some say that we will probably never use what we have learnt in school, that when we go to university the courses we choose may have no relevance whatsoever to our A level subjects, that the jobs we take in the future have nothing to do with mathematics or physics or chemistry or biology or geography. this is true, but i believe that the value of schooling lies not in the final product but in the journey. all that talk about schools cultivating an independent spirit and instilling values in us is, pardon my language, bullshit. either you already have it, or you don't. it is from school that we learn the swear words of our time, that we laugh at the most notorious characters in the cohort, while subconsciously learning how to avoid becoming like them, where we learn to get along with people we like and don't like, where some find their life partners, and others find out how fragile the heart really is. school is not a place to learn facts. it is a place where we learn to become human.
So now that you have faced the last test you will ever take, go out into the world and live. i mean really live. if there is anything you want to do or experience before you die, now is the time to start. you have been cleared of all accusations of late or missing work, cleared of all blame of not studying hard enough, cleared of all suspicion of sleeping in class, and cleared of all doubt about your intelligence.
Like our seniors before us, we have been vindicated.
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