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Learning the right things, in the right ways, is entertaining. I'd argue that school is neither about learning nor about entertainment. School is that experimen
by virtualized 9y ago
Learning the right things, in the right ways, is entertaining. I'd argue that school is neither about learning nor about entertainment. School is that experiment with the monkeys and the ladder. Its original purpose was making mindless factory workers. Students became teachers who taught more teachers and so on. What is the actual purpose of school nowadays? It's a place where you can leave your children while you work and it's a checkbox on a CV.
- sillypog 9y agoThe school I attended was founded in 1206. I don't think training factory workers was a top priority back then.
- bengillies 9y agoSchools exist for the same reason that farms and factories exist: it's a lot more efficient having specialised workers (in this case teachers) who can do the job far more effectively (in this case teach 30 or so children) than having every person do it themselves (in this case every parent take a large portion of time out of their day to teach their own child individually). The alternative to school was for girls to help out around the house until they were married off and for boys to either learn their father's trade and then do that for the rest of their lives or get apprenticed off to whoever could take them and then do _that_ for the rest of their lives. School helps children create a life for themselves. If children don't learn anything there they'll find far fewer paths open to them later on.