Bokelskere.no

schools don't really teach anything
except how to obey orders.

..noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching:

schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises
of the planet.
No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes
or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes.

The truth is that
schools don't really teach anything
except how to obey orders.

This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people
work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators,

but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual
contributions.
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard,
the institution is psychopathic --
it has no conscience.

It rings a bell
and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook
and move to a different cell
where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor