It's not the teachers per se, it's the school system that turns them into henchmen. Institutionalized oppression. Still haven't figured out that forcing kids t

It's not the teachers per se, it's the school system that turns them into henchmen. Institutionalized oppression. Still haven't figured out that forcing kids to do things against their will does not make them love doing it. Another level of perversion is singling out kids who stand up for themselves and refuse to (or just cannot) fit in the extremely unnatural and unhealthy environment that school is, often labeling them abnormal and often pushing for medicating them. Atrocious. A great book on the topic is "Punished by Rewards" by Alfie Kohn. Lots and lots of research showing how attempts for extrinsic motivation kill intrinsic motivation. For parents reading this: Praise kills motivation. Encouragement kills motivation. Rewards kill motivation (it shifts onto the rewards). Punishment destroys trust and creates motivation to not be caught. ;)