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> The schooling system, with its grades, signed slips, and whatnot, is set up through extrinsic motivation to teach obedience, conformity, and smothering the in
by smhg 6y ago
> The schooling system, with its grades, signed slips, and whatnot, is set up through extrinsic motivation to teach obedience, conformity, and smothering the intrinsic drive so necessary for the creative work we will expect from the children later in life.
I think your expectations of the schooling system are simply skewed. At least in the countries which I lived in (Europe) the 'customer' of the schooling system is first and foremost society as a whole.
The individual, the child, comes second. Not in a way that children are not important. It's just that the outcome of a well organised society is what matters. So, although not in extreme ways of course (there is no evil mastermind), conformity and the likes are important values.
- mhaberl 6y agoI agree with this. We all love to say that we want creative free thinking individuals.. but come on now - currently the society is mostly composed of conformed (without this society probably would not function, at least as it does now) and in a lesser extent the obedient. The creative and free thinking individuals push us all foward and we would not advance without them, but the majority is different. Schooling system is not what it is by accident.
- kqr 6y agoActual, socially beneficial conformity is produced just fine on its own with how humans generally are social group animals that want to fit in and not be embarrassed from doing weird, unfair, or harmful stuff. Simply interacting with other people is what makes humans follow meaningful rules. That happens whether or not we're rewarded for being good dogs in the eyes of adults. Conformity to arbitrary procedures and sets of rules is not helpful anywhere, and that's what school gives us.