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Originally Posted by Nefeli
this.
i cant agree more.
they need robots, who work and consume.
i said smth before about wanting to learn at school. i wanted to edit, that mostly, it wasnt very successful.
i dont know whats the case in other countries, but in mine and at my time, it felt they didnt want opinion-makers, critical minds. you could see it, but you had to play by the rules.
at university, thankfully it was somewhat different. partly a reason, took us all some time to adjust. still, i never saw discussions to be encouraged, let alone outside the books and with reference to reality etc.
education system needs to be torn from the gut.
its a shame, there are people outside it who could help and make a difference and the system choses of course not to use them.
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it's always like that i suppose. mostly, you need to obey, not question what the teacher/books says, not talk unless you're told to, reproduce everything you've been told in your work/essays, be humiliated and have your individuality undermined by every school worker.
if you dare saying "i read THIS OTHER book about this, and the author says this has been discredited", or actually daring having any input other than the one they expect you to have for which they are not prepared to, they will make an "example" out of you for the others to see what they do to people who question "too much".
of course i did question EVERYTHING to an extent i couldn't follow any rules. i wanted to learn, but school wasn't teaching me anything other than how twisted people can be and how much certain people will abuse any authority they can have, no matter how insignificant.
people are weird. when i think about certain things that happened it all seems so absurd. one time a teacher ended up finding out i was involved in a series of pro-gay marriage/civil rights/abortion manifestations. she actually had to confront me about it, as if what i did outside the school was any of her business, these were HER feelings, she had no business mixing that with my grades in school. I think it bothered her SO MUCH that a week later they invited me to a 'meeting' in which some teachers and parents stood there telling me they had seen me kissing this girl in school. The strangest thing is that it never happened. I was already aware that if a group of people say something, it doesn't have to be true, it will become true. of course it woudln't be their business or call for this even if it did, but they just carried on saying it did happen as if they were trying to convince me. The other girl was never called, why would she, she didn't want gays to get married and women to have control over their bodies. So many years later I realise those were a bunch of adults trying to create rumours to "punish" for having opinions they did not agree with. It shouldn't surprise me, even today the mere mention of the word 'feminist' gets people hating me.