We have been educated to live in a world that no longer exists. Not in vain, the educational system seems to have stagnated in the Industrial Age in which it was designed. Ever since we started going to school, they have been urging us to "study hard," "get good grades," and "get a college degree." And that is precisely what many of us have tried to do.
Fundamentally, because we believed that once our student stage was over, we would find a "steady job" with a "stable salary" until our age of retirement.
But since the labor reality has changed, these academic slogans are no longer valid. In fact, they have become an obstacle that limits our professional possibilities and potential. And it is that public schools were created in the 19th century in the image and likeness of industrialism. That is to say, to train and mold loyal and docile workers, adapting them to the mechanical function they were going to perform in the factories. The truth is that contemporary high schools still have many parallels with the assembly lines, division of labor, and mass production promoted by Frederick Taylor and Henry Ford.
Schools divide the scholar curriculum into specialized segments. Some teachers install math in students, while others program history, physics or geography. On the other hand, the Institutes organize the day between standard units of time delimited by the sound of alarms, sirens and ringbells. A protocol similar to the announcement of the beginning of the working day and the end of breaks in a factory. In parallel, students are educated by groups, according to age, as if the most important thing they had in common was their date of manufacture. And they are forced to memorize and retain a certain amount of information, sometimes useless, then subjecting them to standardized tests and comparing them all with each other before sending them to the job market. What today could already be considered as a planned obsolescence.
Beyond the fact that this pedagogical formula allows students to learn to read, write and do mathematical calculations, the school discourages learning and rather encourages conformism and obedience. And worst of all: it annihilates our creativity. All of us are born with extraordinary innate strengths, qualities and abilities. Paradoxically, before entering school, children take risks, improvise, play and are not afraid to say what they think or to be wrong. This is not to say that making mistakes is equivalent to being creative, but unless we are willing to be wrong, it is impossible for us to be able to innovate or do things other than those established as "normal" by society.
"Changing Education Paradigms"
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I pretty strongly agree with your sentiments. I never managed to get a degree, but I have gained professional level knowledge in several fields as an autodidact. I also homeschooled my kids, mostly because I experienced public school and the primary purpose of the school seemed to be to crush interest in learning, which I didn't want my kids to suffer.
Schools are far worse than merely training for factory service nowadays. They're indoctrination camps and hell bent on deranging kids. Recently the Governor of Oregon (why she'd have any ability to do this I have no idea) ended all the requirements to know how to read, write, or do math to graduate from high school, to help minorities. Do you think that really helped minorities, or did it in fact harm them?
I lean towards the latter view myself.
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