The Problem with Modern Education

Saturday 3 September 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

There are all manner of things that are wrong with our educational system here in America, not least of which is the idea that only teachers are qualified to teach things worth learning, and that the only worthwhile learning happens in school. Real-world interactions count for little and are dismissed by many. The Daily:

But history tells us that today’s public schools are the legacy of corporate fads from the 1900s, when large industrial enterprises were keenly interested in securing a docile workforce that recognized and respected hierarchies. The tinkering, self-starting spirit that had been a necessity in a frontier society was snuffed out by design. We’ve been taught that education is this constricted, standardized and homogenized thing that happens in buildings called schools in between the ringing of school bells.

We don’t want experienced people anymore, but educationally credentialed ones, and as someone who spent as many years in higher education as I did primary and secondary educational institutions, I know that an education should NEVER be mistaken for intelligence. They aren’t the same things no matter how much Top Men try and convince us otherwise.

2011-09-03  »  madlibertarianguy