SAT: Learning For the Sake of Learning

Heres another practice SAT essay with the topic of whether we put too much stress on learning practical practices and not just learning things for sake of learning.

Sat Essay

In this fast pace world of today, where everything is turned into an efficiency machine, people go through their everyday job just to get through it, to get the pay check, and move on forward in there single minded lives. Who would stop to ever think, "Why is the sky blue?" "What forces were at work to create this universe?" "Where does the universe end?". The world 2.1 high efficiency software doesn't need visionaries; it needs practical people to keep things moving in the same fashion. People indeed put too much emphasis on learning practical skill because of the emphasis the world has on the need of workers and not thinkers, visionaries, and theorists.
Each day is a struggle for most people. A struggle at their job or school where the ones who shine move up on the ladder of success. Most of the people who can help you move up in your life, your teachers and bosses, care mostly about your work and efficiency at getting thinks done, over, moving on. Teachers and bosses can't personally know everyone they teach or oversee, its impossible. So what determines you as a good worker or an outstanding student is you grade, papers, work, and how much information you can cram into you brain. Society today and in the past has been run on the basis of practicality.
In the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, we see how the people in Africa mostly focus their thoughts on the present and the small community around them. IN this place stuck in the past, nobody really cares about thinking of innovative inventions that could make their lives easier. They just go about their daily work. Just like this, working and getting paid has overcome the need of creative thinking. Money puts food on the table not thoughts. This is not particularly a bad thing, but not a good thing either.

Okay, I know I didn't get to finish this essay (which seems to be a bad habit of mine regarding SAT essays) but I think I improved a bit from my last essay (or maybe not depending on how you see it). I don't think that I have made a significant improvement on my writing technique and so I am not that happy about this essay, but then again, I don't think I would ever be happy with an essay that I have only 30 to complete with no references to help my thoughts. Oh well. Better luck next time.