It’s Time to Blow Up The Public School System
Why we need radical transformation in our quest to educate the next generation
Here’s a provocative question for you: Is school necessary?
Chances are the answer to that question was a nearly automatic “yes”. However, it’s clearly too big of a question and requires the examination of too many assumptions to answer that quickly, so chances are you did what humans always do when faced with a question too big for the moment.
You substituted a similar (but easier) question and then answered that one instead: Is it a good idea to educate our young people? Yes.
Having settled on that sound conclusion, you probably want to point out the fact that the education of young people is the primary point of school.
Is it really, though?
That may be the stated objective, but if an unbiased observer who was unfamiliar with the school system was asked to come in and tell us what they thought the point of school was, what would they say?
They might pick up that we are trying to teach kids something, but here’s a handful of other things that it’s equally likely that they would conclude:
The point of school is to turn unruly children into compliant and…
