Meta-cognition

I've been questioning myself a lot about this and last year on why I became an IB diploma candidate. My reason for my thinking of this is caused by looking back at my course history. I noticed that I only took one honors class before I became a "Dip Can" and that class was in my freshman year. I did not take any IB prep courses, I only took normal classes in my sophomore year. This fact sort of sticks out because I went from some of the easiest classes and being able to have electives to the some of the hardest classes in the school and being forced to take my second foreign language and having no electives at all. I've asked my parents about why they want me to be IB even though I decided not to go to a four year college. My dad's answer caught me off guard because he stated that most of the things that one would learn in school are irrelevant after one would get out of school, and how the main idea of school is to learn how to learn. I really never thought about school that way, but not going to a regular college made me think about why I should try at all because it lead to myself asking myself when am I going to need to know how to write an ethnography, film critique, research paper, or personal narrative when I am planning on being a cobbler. All the things that I learned almost seem pointless.