Ah, school.

Modern day schooling is an inherently oppressive system used to keep the youth from working towards any real change. From an early age we are all taught uniformity and obedience and the concepts are drilled in our heads for years afterwards. As we progress into the capitalist “real world,” we have already been ingrained with the skills necessary to make profit and live under managers. The school system uses many tools in order to keep down the natural tendencies of children.

For twelve years, kids are stuck in small chairs bolted to even smaller desks. Everyone has one, and there is rarely ever an empty seat anywhere. They can’t sit on the floor or anywhere else for fear of being punished. Assigned seats are a must during the first few years of school, but after awhile the rule fades away. They will still sit down in the seats that they chose in the beginning because they’ve become comfortable with the same chair, the same view, and the same two buttcracks from either side. When a trainer wants to train a young elephant, he clamps a strong chain to the elephants leg and stakes that into the ground so that the elephant can only walk in a small circle. He struggles and fights against the chain, but eventually learns to accept it. Even when the elephant can easily rip the stake out of the ground, he continues to walk in the same circle that he grew up with. In the rigid positions set by their teachers, children feel trapped within their seats. When sitting in their chairs, they are no longer being lectured to; they’re being lectured at. A student that cannot move his legs or stretch his arms will struggle to move out, paying less attention to the lesson and more attention to his left leg bobbing up and down. Is it impossible to replace the chairs and hard tile with soft carpeting so that the kids can sit down? Better yet, the outdoors provide us with all the seating arrangements we need. These sterile indoor environments create too much of a dent in a child’s natural progress to be used in the way it is today.

Students are slaves to the bell. A time to enter, a time to leave, a time to eat, and a time to rush to class. They follow the same routine day after day. The system has gotten to the point that kids see periods as blocks of time; when they finish their first class, they are that much closer to getting to the last class. The modern education system has been brought down to children waiting for the next period to come, so that they can wait for the next period in that room. Teachers are forced to cram an entire lesson into one short period when it would normally take a whole week. Some teachers stretch short lesson plans into entire periods with unnecessary busy work. If the teacher could dismiss the children when the class ended, there would be no pressure to stretch a class and waste time that could be spent on real education. Students cannot stay longer with their teachers after class, even if it is needed; they might miss a little bit of their gym class or lunch time. In many parts around the world, where their education has not been tainted by our system, students come and go as they please. Teachers set a date and time that they are going to be somewhere, and the students gather around him and listen. He goes on as long as he needs to, and the audience pays attention to all of it and takes notes diligently. It may be far less efficient than our system, but having less classes where the students give all their attention is far more positive than an institution where people pay more attention to the clock than the teacher. The current grading system is an inefficient way of showing a students progress and of encouraging education. In the modern education system grades have far more importance than education. As long as a student passes his class with a D, he is fine to move on to his next class.

Teachers, parents, and students are all pressured to keep the student going from one grade to the next, with no pauses in between. If a teacher cannot get a student through his course in the allotted time, he will get a bad review from his superiors and the parents. If the parent can’t force the child through to the next grade, it is extremely shameful on his part. Students force their way to the next grade so that they aren’t considered ’slow’ by their peers and parents. We rush children through the public education system so quickly that they learn far less than they could. A kid that earns a D in his elementary math class will move on, but he won’t know what he is doing in his Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus classes later on. The grading system encourages cheating and plagiarism, which is very counter-progressive in the modern education system. Aside from the few over achievers, the grading scale doesn’t encourage students to work any harder. A slacker can pass the class just as well as the valedictorian, but with much less effort. The less effort that they put into the class and the less attention they have to pay means that the student will get far less education. Anyone, given the time and motivation, can write an ‘A’ paper. We encourage people to work hard on papers instead of to show what they know. A student can write a five page paper on nothing at all and get his grade, or he could stretch his mind and write on something that he enjoys writing about with no limit. Nobody wants to work for hours only to receive a single letter on an arbitrary scale. A letter cannot tell a student what he needs to improve, only that his paper was either high on a scale or low on a scale. This completely takes away from a student’s sense of achievement, getting him used to receiving ridiculous rewards for difficult tasks.

Modern education is a huge drain on today’s society. It cannot be reformed or changed; it can only be destroyed and then replaced by something different. The problems that have turned modern education into an oppressive system are things which are necessary for the social control and obedience needed in the capitalist world.

lol r u emo kid?

No, you're thinking of dumb kids in school
I think school is biased however against some ideas.

Yeah, it sucks huh. At least you can still drop out and become a drug dealer.

"Modern education is a huge drain on today’s society. It cannot be reformed or changed; it can only be destroyed and then replaced by something different. The problems that have turned modern education into an oppressive system are things which are necessary for the social control and obedience needed in the capitalist world."


How to you think we should destroy the school system you idiot?  I think you should think before you ever post again.  We still have time outside of school to develop and schools are made to cope to the needs of the children much research goes into planning the classes.

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I'll agree with you if you're talking about High School.  However, it's still necessary for younger kids to learn to adapt to society's expectations and conventions.

Seriously, I don't think I learned anything in High School..  and yet, I had gotten into several Ivy league universities..  Had high school not been mandatory to go to college, I would have been where I am right now 4 years earlier.  Damn, I want those 4 years back...

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