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> ... children who’d been subjected to the same insipid tasks year after year after year were understandably losing their enthusiasm for learning. And yet we p
by chrisdbaldwin 11y ago
> ... children who’d been subjected to the same insipid tasks year after year after year were understandably losing their enthusiasm for learning.
And yet we pretend this isn't by design! The US system is based on 18th-19th century's Prussian system which was used in their military to create more obedient soldiers. That's why school is soul crushing and so many children suffer in school. We are teaching them obedience above all else.
The system stinks.
- cafard 11y agoI think that the Prussian bit is overdone. For one thing, the Prussian government was not trying to create more obedient soldiers--it had ample & brutal discipline for that--but literate ones. For another, it was the widespread literacy that US reformers were looking at.