School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.
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No teacher has the right to cure a child of making noises on a drum. The only curing that should be practiced is the curing of unhappiness.
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.
To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educator.
Schooling that children are forced to endure__n which the subject matter is imposed by others and the __earning_ is motivated by extrinsic rewards and punishments rather than by the children__ true interests__urns learning from a joyful activity into a chore, to be avoided whenever possible. Coercive schooling, which tragically is the norm in our society, suppresses curiosity and overrides children__ natural ways of learning. It also promotes anxiety, depression and feelings of helplessness that all too often reach pathological levels.
One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it__ incredibly restrictive - very, very restrictive. There__ so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.
A person who says __very person has a right to a decent education_ may not actually mean __eople should be robbed to support bad schools_ or __ll children should be forced into a prison-like building for 12 years.
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus