*laughs* Well I say this because I agree with some points of your opinion that the general dogma of state run schools is to encourage the existence of calm accepting masses. After all the original ideology of the public school system in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century was to create factory workers. They taught people to respect authority, to do boring tasks over and over without question and to fear a bad report. That has been shifted from the factory job to the office job or service job. People go with it because it seems easy if you just accept it. But there are still people who do genuinely try and actually teach kids things and how to be independent beings and think for themselves. They are few and far between. I had an incredible teacher when I was 13. I say she was incredible because she even interested kids who normally weren't keen on what was being tossed at them. She encouraged a lot of conversation and spirit in people. I remember distinctly this one project we did (it was US history we were taking) where we spent several weeks playing as if we were colonists in early America and we started off fairly peaceful but then we got caught up in taking as much land as possible and killing Indians and what not and when everything failed in the end and people were dying in this role-playing game she kind of took us out of it and said, "look at what you are doing." We learned how easy it was to get caught up in the blind game of capitalism and colonial warring. Fascinating stuff. It is a rare situation.
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Well I say this because I agree with some points of your opinion that the general dogma of state run schools is to encourage the existence of calm accepting masses. After all the original ideology of the public school system in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century was to create factory workers. They taught people to respect authority, to do boring tasks over and over without question and to fear a bad report. That has been shifted from the factory job to the office job or service job.
People go with it because it seems easy if you just accept it.
But there are still people who do genuinely try and actually teach kids things and how to be independent beings and think for themselves. They are few and far between.
I had an incredible teacher when I was 13. I say she was incredible because she even interested kids who normally weren't keen on what was being tossed at them. She encouraged a lot of conversation and spirit in people. I remember distinctly this one project we did (it was US history we were taking) where we spent several weeks playing as if we were colonists in early America and we started off fairly peaceful but then we got caught up in taking as much land as possible and killing Indians and what not and when everything failed in the end and people were dying in this role-playing game she kind of took us out of it and said, "look at what you are doing." We learned how easy it was to get caught up in the blind game of capitalism and colonial warring. Fascinating stuff.
It is a rare situation.