The Myth of Education
24th December 2018
The purpose of education is to socialise human beings into a life of complete institutional dependency. School teaches you that justice must come from someone in institutional authority, that meaningful activity must come from a ‘career path,’ that if you want to express yourself you must first gain access to centralised speech platforms,1 that if you want to do something, you must first of all gain a licence or a qualification and that, above all, your own desires and instincts are invalid.
General incompetence, self-alienation and permanent childishness is the purpose of education; indeed the stated purpose. The designers of the modern school were chillingly explicit about what school is supposed to do.2 Self-knowledge, self-confidence, peace-of-mind, sensitivity, spontaneity and autonomy do not figure; indeed they are existential threats of the highest order which must be repeatedly exterminated.
Modern education is only slowly breaking away from the factory-style method of aggregating all children into a batch based on age and flushing that batch through the school system like turds through a colon, without any consideration of individual talent or capability. Thus you have teachers spending most of their time attempting (unsuccessfully) to get the dimwits in the class up to speed, while the brighter students (bored out of their skulls) spend their time causing trouble. As a result, any ‘education’ that happens is in spite of, rather than because, the formal process.
December 26th, 2018 at 10:54
That’s what I’ve suspected for decades, ever since I finally finished serving my sentence…