There's something about education reform, about educational value systems, and lopsided and impersonal education that preoccupies me and that I want to investigate. Do personal tutoring and homeschooling create more well-rounded pupils, more well-rounded citizens and compassionate characters? Can we create systems that equally value all ways of learning, all personal interests and still fully educate students in all subjects? Can we encourage kids, boys AND girls, to have the confidence and the knowledge-base to purse what futures they will?

Why, if I want to go into business, can't I? Why does a test stop me Why aren't there viable alternatives or affordable methods to pursue traditional means?

Perhaps this test, this math score, tells me that I wold struggle, maybe needlessly in their eyes, at business school. Accounting might just stump me completely. This test tells me that those educators won't want to waste their time on someone like me, with a compassionate yet mathematically illogical mind. I must, therefore, seek alternative routes to my future. A future that involves collaboration as well as innovation, compassion as well as logic, and revolution as well as standard practices.

I'm heartbroken that my attempt at traditional methods was not wholly successful. And I'm trying to remind myself that, in view of all of the above, I am not stupid.

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