I Believe Life Is a Life Long Lesson

I think its humiliating to have to think of yourself as an A student or a B student, let alone a C student or a D student. Who makes up the rules with all that?

To me its still like WTF?

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GerOttman · 61-69, M

factory style education models are based on actual factory production requirements. memorization of procedures, adherence to rules, punctuality, zero error rate, unquestioned obedience of authority. all these qualities are prized and rewarded in a society controlled by an elite class of wealthy overlords.

Stilltryinghard

@GerOttman Hope you escaped the worst of that!
Zero error rate. I like that!

And what does that say about our ability to make friends from different "classes" literally???

And what does that say about competition and how that might be really different from cooperation? but what do we actually learn about the difference? That cooperation is only for the class play?

...and why does it always feel like they are playing with our heads in that place???

What does that say about our right to make friends with ourselves???

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@Stilltryinghard 12 years of Catholic school/prison! the only escape was into my own thoughts. If I'd been captured by the VC, I think I'd have survived pretty well.

Stilltryinghard

@GerOttman were u in nam too?

GerOttman · 61-69, M

@Stilltryinghard I'm from that era. I grew up with napalm and body counts at the dinner table. They stopped the draft a year before I turned 18. I enlisted in the air force out of high school but never went to SE Asia. As you may have picked up on the subtle clues, I did not have a happy school experience!

Stilltryinghard

@GerOttman My uncle just escaped WWII after enlisting in the military at 18...