ren, sorry, I don’t believe you. I know you want to believe, heck i would want to believe it and probably would’ve said that about my own education 10 years ago, but in reality, that’s not what school is.
I had no issues with my schools as I was going through them. I was at the top of all my classes, the spelling bee champion, the kid who always got the “best in class certificate”, top 15% at law school, honors from college. And you know what? Education is a giant game of manipulation perceptions, of students manipulating teachers for a certain result and of teachers keeping children quiet and in their seats for the time they are responsible for them. School is about indoctrination and mind control and locking kids down.
You will not persuade me otherwise. It is all about fear and ego, school rankings, test scores, what college you went to, your future prosecpts. FEAR AND EGO, not learning. fear and ego and bullying at every level. A school is a very unlikely place learning really could ever take place.
And all this emphasis on formal education, paid education, isn’t it all part of what is the next enormous bubble to burst — the student loan debt bubble? I’m about paid off on my massive debt — but i’ll be damned if i let me kids get sucked into massive debt. Isn’t that what educators wan- to prepare you for a “good college” with a hefty amount of indebtedness? Isn’t that what the system churns out?
