Professors, the ultimate parasite

In class today we again fell in to this topic of parasites and I realized that in a students like the biggest parasite that we have seen our whole lives is teachers and professors. Throughout our entire lives we have attended school with different teacher taking different classes and I never realized that really these people ingraining knowledge in to our heads are the biggest parasites that will in actuality never ever leave us.

Ever class we take in school, we are obtaining knowledge given to us in the hands of the giver (the prof. the teacher) and they can control what we learn, what we take in, and how we use this information in our every day life. They consume our minds and then really when you think about it, they form you to think a certain way in some cases forever. If I think back to math classes, every math teacher has a way of teaching their students the best way to go about a problem that may be different from another. Yet still to this day if I practice a math problem I have ways in which my mind has been formed to complete these problems that I still stand by.

This parasite of the way we are taught things ultimately changes our perspectives on many things in the world. If a professor chooses to have a bias and spends and entire quarter persuading you subtly to believe in one thing, you are most likely going to be able to see things from this perspective. What professors choose to teach us plays a huge part in how we evolve as people, much like the parasite that takes over our emotions and our thoughts sometimes leaving us to think nothing for ourself.

I must say though in this class our thoughts are left to roam in any way possible. Conversations are so astray that I cannot say this class is parasitic, unless of course we see this form of thinking as a parasite which very well may be true. Prof. Prichard has gotten all of us to begin this thought process that inevitable drives us all nuts because we begin to think the entire world is a parasite and we continue to challenge every thought that we have ever had. So yes, I retract my statement I suppose even this, constant mind boggling class is a parasite because it is again consuming us, and causing us to think in ways that we would not normally think. The world is a parasite… and so is life! Period!