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Is the point of school uniform to squash individuality? Is this how we want to prepare children for adulthood? I doubt that conformity, submission to arbitrary
by ogogmad 6y ago
Is the point of school uniform to squash individuality? Is this how we want to prepare children for adulthood? I doubt that conformity, submission to arbitrary rules out of fear, and not standing out are good things to teach children, at least if you don't want them to become a bunch of zombies as adults.
Also, given the choice, who wants the sort of job that mandates a uniform?
- h_anna_h 6y agoA lot of people decide to become pilots or work for the army.
- elric 6y agoUniforms are a big thing in the UK. Many jobs require them, even places where it seems entirely irrelevant. Hell, many non-customer facing office workers get a very strict dress code (black shoes, black trews, x/y/z colour shirt). I never understood why that was a thing.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoI wore school uniforms for 12 years in school. I don’t consider myself a conformist.
- heavyset_go 6y agoArguably, this is the point of school, even if I disagree with it.
- Noumenon72 6y agoI regarded a uniform as one of the reasons to choose a factory job over an office job, since I would not have to make any clothes purchasing decisions or wear out my own stuff. Remote work is even better -- I got to have my cake and eat it too.
- cbozeman 6y agoThe point of modern Western education was to create factory and low-level office workers.
- Symbiote 6y agoA more recent justification was to remove the chance for rich children to "look different" to poor children -- everyone is equal by wearing the same. Of course, it doesn't work that way -- the poor children have second-hand clothes or the cheapest clothes from Asda, and the rich children will spend money on whatever they can -- fancy shoes etc.