Everybody knows about the importance of education and how vital it is in your formative years to get the best possible education out there. Many students are used to having people older than them saying how important it is to study. While the essential need for education is indisputable, a Maltese teenage student has slammed the island’s education system in a passionate post written in the newly-opened student forum Grupp Studenti Maltin.

19-year-old Claire DeBattista Sanderson said she “wants to start learning, understand what is happening, discuss various subjects, and not remain stupid”

“I’m tired,” she prefaced her lengthy Facebook post, moving on to detail the mundane – and unstainable – way she feel’s the island’s education system operates.

“We have an education system which sees us spending years studying so we can spend two or at most three hours to satisfy a piece of paper. And after that, we still aren’t capable of discussing and arguing in a number of subjects,” she continued.

“I’m tired having an academic education where learning is no longer seen as important.”

She said that “going to school for eight hours a day from Monday to Friday to stuff information in your head and go to an exam and regurgitate what you know without having a single idea on what is going on… that is not learning, that is pappagalliżmu.”

The young student also took aim at the fact that “a couple of numbers would determine our capacity in the academic world”

Saying that “there is a big difference between remembering and learning”, she added she doesn’t want a system where she’s only required to remember.

“Why do you think that a lot of youths are scared of doing an exam?” she asked. “It’s is because they go through an enormous amount of effort to remember as much information as they can, with the big probability of not knowing half of the things that they need to remember.”