Have any of you ever looked into the educational system? Like... really looked into the history of where it started?
If you haven't, you will now.
I learned something interesting today while I was talking to my good friend and teacher, Dominic.
He was explaining to me how the original idea of the educational system was created by Henry Ford,
to create the perfect worker.
Now, I want you to think back to High School. Did you ever feel like they were just trying to turn you into a mindless drone, out for nothing more than to get enough money to survive?
Of course you did. (And if you didn't... you are, or probably will end up being a mindless drone out for nothing more than getting enough money to survive.)
My friend Dominic is very... deeply insighted to the world of education. He became a teacher to do nothing more than teach young adults to think for themselves, and to fight for the creative process. He made a fantastic point today, and I can't explain it without quoting his exact words;
"What is the one thing I can not take from you? Think about it. No answers? Well, let's see. I can take your clothes, I can take your hair, I can take your life. The one thing I can never take from you... is what you have learned. Your knowledge. Sure, I can change it... give you bits of information to manipulate and change your mind for what I feel is better. That's what I'm doing right now. That's what the educational system has been doing ever since you started kindergarten... only they've been telling you only partially what you should know. Only the things they think you need to know, so that you can be a mindless drone, just like everone else. Why do you think they created the I.E.P.(Independent Educational Plan)? Because the people who aren't 'normal'... the people like you and me... we pose a threat. We are disrupting the peace of the perfect little world they have created. As far as they're concerned, we should be locked up in the looney bin with all the other true geniuses out there." - Dominic
Dominic is the most fantastic teacher I ever had. He doesn't actually have a teaching liscense, and he works at the tiny little run-down school I went to as a 'Visual Arts' teacher. Little do they know, he's teaching everyone much more than Visual Arts. But he figures he has nothing to lose. They can't take away his teaching liscense or anything.
Seriously, M.B.
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Your teacher has another view on education. A progresive view. Teachers like him are the ones that really touch the students ideas and curiosity. We are not thought how to be critical when we are in middle school or even high school, where our mind is at it's early stages. It is very true that the Educational system just teaches you only what they want you to know but they don't teach you to also be critical and think for yourself.
All best,
Hugo J
Anyone who thinks school will help them prepare for life, will teach them anything important, will hold any answers they yearn for, they have been thoroughly molded and manipulated by the religious yet morally corrupt entity that is public education.
Do us all a favor, take your kids out of school, so they can actually learn something and aide the world and its inhabitants.
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