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Having neither had a great family, let alone parents who read to me, I can say school was a catastrophe and I very much agree with OP. The primary lesson of sch
by mbar84 6y ago
Having neither had a great family, let alone parents who read to me, I can say school was a catastrophe and I very much agree with OP. The primary lesson of school, the training that happens every hour of every day of school is this: Sit down, shut up and listen. School is not about teaching and education, it is about training obedience, apathy, resignation and of course baby sitting. It is an institution from the 19th century, developed for a society of farmers, factory workers and dutiful drones of cannon fodder.
- npsimons 6y ago> School is not about teaching and education, it is about training obedience, apathy, resignation and of course baby sitting. It is an institution from the 19th century, developed for a society of farmers, factory workers and dutiful drones of cannon fodder. All of this! I can't understand why people don't see it. I'm not one to argue change for change's sake, but we moved away from being a factory worker economy a long time ago, and even longer still has it been since we've been agrarian. People wonder why we are falling behind in R&D, well it's quite plain when you see that the lessons of school aren't for independent thinkers, it's conditioning for obedient/subservient drones. You're GD right that our current school models were designed in the 19th century for farmers, then factory workers. Something needs to change, otherwise we can expect stagnation at a minimum, but more likely regression as a society.