On 11/03/09, teacher wrote:
> Not education, but school. Those are two totally different
> things.

I've thought a lot along these lines. If you want to think
more along the same line, read John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us
Down. A Place Called School is also a good read but not a fun
one.

I think some schools are complete bunk. I think most schools
are pointed in the wrong direction. Education is of course
valid, enlightening, worthy and good but few schools seem to
be about education really. Many of our school policies seem
to run counter to learning.
If for example schools were really to be about learning, why
do we have so many kids in each school and in each class? I
came to think it's just a lie to say that schools are about
learning. If they were, we would have designed school
differently than we did.
School is some process contrived to contain kids each day and
any learning that happens there is wonderful. But yes,
school, not education seems to have a lot of bunk in it.

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