Education and Coersion

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School is a double edged sword, at its best it is a place to facilitate meetings between students and teachers and other students allowing them to share knowledge and skills. At its worst it is a massive buearacracy that defines a way of life for an entire society, school doesnt just teach math and history and science, it teaches people how to live.
And how are we taught to live? Were taught to live by the clock, we are taught to be patriotic, we are taught to respect authority, we are taught that children learn, we are taught that if we have more education we will have better lives, we are taught that dumb kids must be separated from smart ones, we are taught that those with the best grades are the smartest, we are taught that our personal lives are separate and below our lives as students, we are taught what is important and what is not, we are taught that learning in school is the best type of learning, we are taught to always obey the rules, and above all else we are taught that we need more school to make life better.
Why does school do this? Because it is not simply there to educate, school controls what society is. How can we have egalitarianism if we are constantly graded and streamed. How can we have our rights if we loose half of them the minute we step foot inside a school. How can we expect to have a democratic society if we spend the first 18+ years of our life doing what were told?
School is an authoritative coercive institution run by a barely democratic body made up mostly of unelected civil servants, we should not be surprised that we have a society and a world run by authoritative coercive institutions at every level when we see that the institution responsible for teaching us how to live in society is authoritative and coercive, to the point where it is obligatory for every member of society to attend, and while inside it you have little to no control over it, and the only way to get to an office that does have control over it is to have been in it for a very long time.
This is just the beginning of a series of videos were making on school, before the next one is ready some great research to do on this subject would be done at http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/
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[GoodScienceForYou]

When an evolutionist prays, remember even a "praying mantis" looks like it is praying.

[McOath]

I'm sorry but what does this have to do with the content of this video?

[brendanmcooney]

who is that last quote by?

[McOath]

Aldous Huxley, (who's name I've been speeling wrong) in the 1958 "Brave New World Revisited" which is a very interesting essay in which he discusses the book and the development of dictatorships in the modern world.

[akpret]

this video is pretty nice. thumbs up.

[herrapikkarainen]

I've been thinking about the schooling system and its role in modern society recently because my nephew is starting school. It is incredible what a "benevolent dictatorship" the system really is. One thing that has increased enormously from the time I was my nephew's age is the role of psychiatry as a mechanism of social control in the school world. Children's personalities and temperaments are being medicalized in such minute detail as was unimaginable just a few decades ago.

[EmilyElle]

Tom... is that a bunch of kids in Hogwarts uniforms

I would hardly lump Hogwarts in with this

That's unfair

Anyway, there are tons of alternative schools right here in Toronto that you might be interested in. They all take different approaches but allfocus on community learning-- teachers helping students learn about what THEY want to learn about, and older students helping younger students do the same. Beaches Alternative School, Toronto Waldorf School to name a few.