"Every one is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to clime a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid"-Albert Einstein. This is a key factor in why education and school are very different. In school you are forced to learn over eight different subjects, most of which you have no interest in what so ever. Education is where you are learning something that you will remember and value. Some education might come from school, but does that little amount really compare to all the endless hours studying at night trying to memorize multiple properties, laws, and equations? Will someone please tell me when I am ever going to need to use the pythagorean theorem? How come we are never taught to do our taxes? Why are we taught to learn countless pointless expressions and theorems that we will never need to know ever again, when their are much more relevant things that will constantly face in our near future. There are some geniuses that have no common sense when they use money. Why are we taught about how a rock can change from a metamorphic rock to an igneous rock and not how to manage our money wisely? If high school is supposed to prepare us for the future why aren't we taught about common sense? I think Albert Einstein was trying to explain not everyone is perfect at everything they do. Some people are destined to be architects while others are meant to be rocket scientists. So why is it unfair to give a scientist a history test and a historian a science test and completely normally to give a fourteen year old student a history test, science test, math test, spanish test, health test, and english test? Another reason school and education are very different is because when you are in school teachers look down upon you and restrict you from being yourself. How are you supposed to show your true self if you have to write an essay based upon that teachers rules and how are you supposed to be yourself if you have to wake up every morning choosing the clothes you are forced to wear. How many times have your teachers told you that you failed a paper because it did not follow their format? How many times have you gotten scolded by a teacher for the clothes you are wearing because its not appropriate for school and doesn't follow the dress code? How many times have you gotten something you find important, but have been told not to wear it or have it out in school? My question is this if you want us to be ourselves why do you restrict us from so many things we find important in our daily life? My final question to my audience is this, if education and school are so unrelated and different why do we have them together for 16 years of someones life? If education is the key then school is the lock.