Modern state education is in fact not education, it is programming children to fit into a capitalist system as a productive unit, the human aspect of the individual is secondary, if considered at all. It is also the state's way of conditioning children to accept authority, an necessary attribute for the survival of the state. Teachers in the modern state education system are the state's soft police. If they fail to shape the child into a subservient subject, then the hard police and the judiciary system will take over and continue the conditioning. The state's final policing authority is of course the military.
As children we are taught a false history, a value structure that puts wealth possession above well being, our future success will be measured by how much we can earn, not by what we can contribute, the progress of success is seen as a ladder, you have to climb above others, you have to climb higher. Grades, diplomas, degrees, all badges in the drive to get up that ladder, competition rather than co-operation. I know we can do better than this for our children.
From More Thought:
From More Thought:
Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams:
An Interview with Layla
AbdelRahim
“Schools teach children the principles of death and of
suffering. They do not teach them the principles of life, which is
diversity, which is being out there in the world. They teach them
within closed systems, within closed buildings and walls, separated
from the rest of the world. They teach them that violence is
legitimate when it is applied from the top to the bottom and that it
is illegitimate when it is practised in resistance or defence of
diversity and life. They teach children that humanity is alien to
this world, that success means pleasing those in authority who will
own the products of our flesh, of our effort, of our work, of our
love.” - Layla AbdelRahim
