Words cannot express the loathing I have for the educational system. I could not wait to check out, and have never once regretted leaving the education system.
My biggest beef was the caliber of people teaching public schools. For the most part they are people who went from elementary to Jr. high, to High School, to College, to return to school and teach. All they know is school, and they presume to teach about the world. Occasionally I had a teacher I could respect, and more often than not, they had come from difficult paths, or something else that brought them into contact with the outer world. But the majority of teachers I’ve encountered during and since the time I was in school, are pathetic, insulated, mediocre cattle.
For the most part school trains humans to feel comfortable crowded into groups and corraled like livestock, to arrive on schedule, and spend their days sitting at a desk shuffling papers, concerned about things that have no real significance outside the scholastic beaurocratic circle-jerk.
Primary schools should focus on practical matters, teaching kids how to think, read, communicate, work with their hands [industrially and creatively], and nuts & bolts reality survival skills - segregated according to aptitudes and allowed to pursue pragmatic development along the lines most suited to them.
At a college/university level, the education system is basically a money scam to sell textbooks and milk bank accounts while the individual is collared with red tape. If they are lucky they will come through without too much crippling debt and maybe, maybe knowledge and skills that will put bread on the table.
For the most part it is a fucking scam.
