ON September 12, 2013, Will Smith’s 15-year-old son, Jaden,
tweeted, ‘’School Is The Tool To Brainwash The Youth.’’
The young actor with a budding music career underway has
caught major hell for his string of anti-school tweets.
I risk sounding ignorant here, but I
totally agree with young Jaden. If you critically think about it, what does
school really teach children?
1.
Truth comes from
authority
2.
Intelligence is
the ability to remember and repeat
3.
Accurate memory
and repetition are rewarded
4.
Non-compliance is
punished
5.
Conform: intellectually
and socially
The aim of public education as one
man once correctly observed is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply
to reduce as many individuals as possible to the safe level, to breed and train
a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
Paraphrasing the words of Derrick Jensen, I’ve since
come to understand the reason school lasts twelve years. It takes that long to
sufficiently break a child’s will. It is not easy to disconnect children’s
will, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation
for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.
And just for the record. I’m not here
to encourage youths to drop out of school. My point is, we shouldn’t yield with perfect docility to education’s moulding
hands.
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