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   My brother started the first grade of elementary school this year. Today, he asked me to help him with a school task. He had to learn the entire Polish national anthem by heart, because he's got an oath ceremony next week. When I was helping him to repeat I started thinking, is the national anthem so important, that a 6 six years old child has to know it by heart? He can't have a sheet with him on the ceremony and he has to sing all 4 verses. Isn't this a little bit too much for a child, who can't yet read too well? Shouldn't he be spending this time on something more developmental? He doesn't know basics of maths yet, he can't write too good, but at least he knows the whole national anthem by heart. I may sound like I'm over-exaggerating and it's such a difficult thing for a child to learn, which isn't true, in fact it didn't take my brother that long to memorize it. But I still think it is a little bit too much, I mean what would be a pr...

    When the summertime ended I was not happy about coming back to school. I thought that it will be the same nightmare, the last year was for me. But after a week of school, I am surprised of how good I feel. In the second grade of high school you lose a lot of subjects completely in order to have more hours of the subjects, that you chose to expand. It means, that most of my classes are the ones I actually like! I even enjoy doing my homework now, because it's pretty much only maths and physics, sometimes English. Thanks to all that, I feel genuinely more motivated to study and to go to school frequently. Hence, I think that maybe it would be better if students were having these profiled classes even earlier in their "students' careers", but I don't know, maybe it's just good for me.