When it gets to the point where hundreds of people reblog “fuck school,” and is a common thing to say, it becomes obvious that we need massive education reform.
Compulsory schooling is a tool the government uses to condition, subordinate, and ultimately control us.
This is no conspiracy theory. It’s very true. Study educational psychology, sociology, and/or anthropology and you’ll see that academics are all aware that the current system is set up this way. Why don’t they change it? Because they’re not the one’s in control. The politicians are, as well as their corporate partners.
To read more on this subject check out the following:
From knowledgeable to knowledge-able: learning in new media environments:
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able
Google: Michael Wesch, the Kansas State Cultural Anthropologist and read his articles and watch his videos.
Google: RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” (1970)
Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner’s “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” (1969)
Jonathan Kozol’s “Death at an Early Age” (1967)
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