The problem with the school system.

Ordinarily, say if someone were putting together a piece of furniture, their logic would be much more astute, if something looks too loose they would say "oops, that's not right", accepting their mistake without a second thought. So why are people so irrational otherwise?

The school system teaches people that reality is the ultimate test and to look for errors in yourself when you make a mistake, it then teaches people to view authority figures in the same way, to them their teachers, and future employers, are as infallible as reality itself. Thus they grow dependent on external validation processes, either reality or authority, and when they need to rely on their own validation processes their logic is far more flawed.

Student slits teacher's throat

Confiscated mobile phone said to be behind attack

KILLED : Mr Sun Wakang, who was attacked by a student in his classroom, died at the scene.

A TEACHER in China paid the ultimate price for trying to discipline a student.

   The teacher had his throat slit by a grade 12 student with a fruit knife on Sept 14 after he confiscated a mobile phone.

   Britain's Daily Mail reported that the student, named only as Lei in local news reports, had been found playing with his phone by his teacher, Mr Sun Wakang, 32, during a chemistry lesson at a middle school in Fuzhou, in China's eastern Jiangxi province.

   The following day Lei went to Mr Sun's classroom where the teacher was marking papers, and slit his throat.

   The father of a one-year-old daughter died at the scene as the student fled.

   The report said the student called the local emergency number on Sept 17 and confessed to the crime before turning himself in to police in Shanghai.

   Mr Sun had worked as a chemistry teacher at Linchuan No. 2 Middle School for five years before his brutal murder, school official Xiong Haishui said.

   He was a well-loved teacher, and had even coached a student who won the National High School Olympics Chemistry competition.

   The report said that through the teacher had taken the student's mobile phone, it had been returned at the end of the day.

   Lei attacked Mr Sun just four days after China's Teacher's Day which was celebrated on Sept 10.

   Officials say a fellow teacher heard Mr Sun's scream and called emergency services, but the 32-year-old was dead before an ambulance arrived.

   Linchuan No.2 Middle School is one of the best schools in Jiangxi Province and has one of the highest university acceptance ratios in the region.