bad bad school...

So we've all gone through this, or are going through it. What are we going to do in the future? The jump from secondary to tertiary education is enormous. And even after that, most of us are still wondering about what to work as in the future. We leave school feeling clueless about what to do next. So what exactly have we spent the last 13-15 years of our lives learning?

Schools came up when civilizations evolved enough to support entire groups of people not working. A complex society would need people with at least basic education to function efficiently. The word school, came from Greek, originally meaning 'leisure spent in pursue of knowledge'. A lot of times, schools were built as part of a religious center, and if you were not of an upper class or a aristocrat, being a scribe at a temple was probably the only way to learn how to read and write properly. 

Strangely enough, Britain was one of the last European countries to have compulsory education (Aztecs being the first... woohoo! those were smart heads they were chopping off!) 

But if you check up Deschooling the Society, or just google miseducation, you will find alot of opposing views about the actual benefits of going through compulsory public education. Schooling that confuses grades, theories and ability to memorize with success in life, knowledge and competence. Schooling that inhibits your ability to think instead. I especially find fault with the fact that for so many years I've been taught to pronounce flour as 'flar'. And then after you graduate from school, it becomes an artifact in a museum, completely removed from you. Something you gaze at and go "ahh.... school" as if you have stopped learning and stopped having a real life.

After all, if you spent all your life so far in a daily routine of reading books and doing homework, how on earth are you suppose to accept that the Monday after your graduation you're suppose to... well, just do something else. And isn't there something wrong if school is suppose to prepare you for life, but then all the adults tells you the best part of life was being in school? Wait a minute, so all that preparation didn't work anyway? 

So, yes, if you do come out of school feeling lost and confuse, blame it on the education.