ultimately, schools are social conformity tools to produce cogs in a machine. that is what “education” is. to pretend otherwise, to claim there is some neutral education that is “real”, is just, well, false.
schools transmit societal values by their very structure …wait in this line…shut up,,,curved grades……listen to teacher..observe and obey social pecking order…barely any movement or exercise…tedium…wait for the bathroom and suppress impulses…etc etc…
they teach us to survive in the society we have…it could be entirely different of course…but it isnt…that’s our values…
if we taught nothing but mathematics all day long, it would still not be “valueneutral”. im not sure exactly what value that would be expressing, but im pretty sure it would be some technocratic nightmore and it’s not neutral.
i don’t think you could possibly come up with an english passage or readingassignment that does not have some sort of valueladen message in it, either right there on the surface, or with a bit of reading between the lines…
in fact, i DEFY you to provide me with a bit of english reading material that cannot be interpreted as having some sick, twisted agenda. i doubt it can be done! there is no valuefree language..schools that are in the business of teaching english are in the business of teaching values.
as pink freud says:
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave them kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
(With kids)
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher leave us kids alone
Hey! Teacher! Leave us kids alone!
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
