the education system is like a prison!

@weirdbeatnik In a prison you are completely passive. You may not leave. People may not come and see you so the outside world is cut off. Intellectually, while engaged in study you should be free to think critically about what you are taught. You're probably right that I don't fully understand what you're trying to say, but I'm pretty sure prison is not the right parallel for explaining your frustration.

@FreddieUK He can use any parallel he wants. You prove his point. A teacher or defender of teachers would tell him that it is the wrong parallel. Things have to flow for them to be free. Do you know what system means? It is no different from him saying he feels like a prisoner in his body, or that he is dissatisfied with the electronics in his home. Schools have a system, and they shut the door on the flowing realities outside of it. Learning exists outside of schools. Facts. Knowledge. Life. They happen outside the classroom. “Education system” is “school system.” School is learning what they want you to learn. It is substandard, subpar education made to “teach” the masses since 19th century industrialization. It is about making you good enough to get out of bed in the morning to go to your ordinary job to help others run their business and keep their money. It ceased to be education when the Enlightenment and modern capitalism came about, and the people sought more and more. You can't have educated folk in this state. The state of needing the factory wheels to keep turning.

The ancient Greeks would be mortified. Or they would laugh.

@degraded That's an interesting take on 'education'. I'm used to anti-teacher rhetoric and accept it as part of the variety of views on how we help young people develop. I agree that utilitarianism is an awfiul basis for education. Charles Dickens was of the same opinion (Hard Times).

@SunshineGirl Same here.

@MarkPaul you don't get what am trying to say do you?

@MarkPaul what I'm trying to say is the education system is set up like a prison you break up you go to school and you basically follow a cold of rules they feed you horrible food for lunch and they teach you basically to be Appliance and never ask questions it's a government setup

@weirdbeatnik You get what I am revealing. Okay.