Robot Rebellion
23rd April 2003, 04:04
There is so much wrong with our schools...
Starting at a kindergarten (from the perspective of drones stuck in sector US), we get to face the mind numbing schedule of juice time, nap time, music time, snack time, recess time, and other activities that the kids don't need or could get on their own.
Going on in grade school, we get to learn about the exiting world of 'teamwork', having a 'positive attitude', 'how to set goals', and other barfy-warfy coreless labels. You sacrifice some trees to make some pointless paper projects to add decorations to your desk. With gym classes you waste most of your time doing pointless exercises that you could have done without an instructor. In 'music' class they persuade you music is all bad, by exposing you to **shudder** the likes of Raffi, and other dumbening agents. History is a joke, where it emphasis’s hierarchy, dates, labels, fear, idol worship, and ignorance. Told from the perspective of the conquerors, and rulers of the status quo, it no wonder kids find these classes dreadful to sit through. Art class is a joke, as you pay a teacher to draw and create junk on your own. Math can only be taught to oneself, to which the teacher doesn't add too much to the text book. Higher level math is taught to give math majors jobs, and not to act as a means to an end. As an end unto itself, we are inundated with that which we could have learned on our own, when we needed it. Let's be honest, folks... Do we need to devote so much of our time to balancing equations? Proofs? It is pointless busy work, as calculators already provide this capacity, and means to come up with such without calculators can be sought out/created as needed. I always here from engineers and computer science majors how they never use math on the job site. Reading class exposes you to the flawed taste of your teacher. Why should I have to suffer through the likes of **shudder** Black Beauty, when I could and do read on my own? It's so stupid... Band is filled with kids forced by their parents to play an instrument, playing god awful music (that could be accomplished without an institution), and participating in the chief mind-numbing hierarchical nonsense of them all, marching band.
The truth about the education system came out, when the school board got complaints from irate soccer-moms who when school gets cancelled due to snow storms, complain about finding somebody to take care of the kids. Sigh, what we really have is an exorbitantly expensive daycare system...
Going on, we have the likes of economics (a joke). Where an inherently subjective science is taught as objective from the capitalistic/statist perspective. No longer is there political-economics, but just economics. The drone that gets paid to regurgitate this statist nonsense does so because this is how he was taught, and whoever pays the piper chooses the tune... Property is a given. Nobody questions the origins of wealth, but once you have it this determines future wealth... From there 'supply and demand' states the those with supply must extract the highest wealth from those who demand for the best economy. Such an important class that is filled with empty labels, pointless mathematical graphs, and ultimately lies...
Much of school is devoted to non-teaching functions. Eating in milk breaks and lunch (where if the institution were efficient kids would be out in time without a need for lunch), subsidized corporate slop filled with toxins. Much time is wasted here, to which it essentially social time for the kiddies. A lot of resources are wasted on infrastructure, with million dollar expansions, to make space for more hoop jumping classes, expansive offices, and to ensure a 10 pupil to teacher ratio (necessary to get extra money from government, even though the classes are taught in lecture mode.) So much resources are wasted on sports, it's not even funny. I don't care for school spirit, and if you want to show everybody you are the champions, go organize without subsidies from the working class. (How on earth did this ever get mixed in with education?) Much resources are wasted on administrative paper pushes (who earn the most). An elaborate bus system is also needed to shuttle kiddies to their favorite cattle yards. Morning bus has a high standard deviation, which means you waste lots of time waiting, and worrying if you miss the bus. Once you get out of the squirrel factory, you have to wait for the stupid bus to arrive (in my case on average 45 minutes after school close, I kid you not). No fun when it is freezing out...
The teachers are the worse part. Know-it-alls, that are the dumbest in all of society. Chosen because of networking and the buddy system. That or your English teacher can coach baseball... (more evils of sports) I attend a university with a big education school, to which doesn't really attract the best and brightest. I've seen the courses they are required to take, and they are a joke. Teachers are prime example of what the French say: 'Knowledge is as jelly, the less you have of it, the more you spread it around.'
College is a joke. Essentially a networking hub, where kids go to party, get drunk, and establish job connections. Much is inefficiently taught, or just flat out wrong. The courses are fluff, and are ends unto themselves, not means to an end. Everything is a part of pre-requisite tree, where the only way they can get the students to take a course is that is needed for another need course. Pretty soon you have a long string of prerequisites, without a point.
The whole education system revolves around test. Everything is taught not for its intrinsic value, but how it relates to the upcoming test. They are poorly written given the inherently subjective nonsense the teachers teach. Much of the test revolves around rote memorization that quickly evaporates, when the kid leaves the class.
To the teacher, it more important for Johnny to know his math tables, while he still hits little Suzi. Everything revolves around grades, prerequisites, and the business world. The grades and such are an expression of the insecurity of the teacher, as they attempt to give meaning to that which can have no meaning. Information is not taught for its intrinsic worth... No wonder so many people from the institutions are so messed up and ignorant...
Most worthwhile information to be taught revolves around unteaching misinformation that has already been taught. Institutionalized schools are designed to hold you back, not aid in your development. You don't learn about life from festering in a boring brick building, but by living it.
What we have is a Gestapo, fascist, conformist institution to indoctrinate the populace. A reflection of societies insecurity... The teachers are so insecure they must lock you up in these cesspools, with truancy laws empowering police to punish you, if you escape.
We get the endless mindless mantra from the parent drones, that we need to devote more resources to 'education'. It is fascinating that they never state, ‘we need more gym class’, or ‘we need more Econ classes’, but just 'education'. The ignorant emphasis labels and not what they represent, for their labels are but illusions... The teacher unions are a fake union. They are the privileged class. Working in cushy work conditions, they get summers off, and benefit from true blue collar work to which they are totally ungrateful of. They demand to be paid more than those who actually contribute to society revealing themselves as parasites of bourgeois through the tax system (that with withering away of the state we would get rid this statist class).
We don't need all this. Parent can teach kids how to read (like my Mom taught me, and Tintin comics did the rest). Once you can read, you can teach yourself, (the only way you actually learn). You can use books, internet, or voluntary tutoring (money corrupts).
It so worries me that some leftist overemphasis this institution as an end as opposed to an means to an end. Institutions have one and only one priority, and that is to perpetuate their existence. These illusions must recognized for what they are…
Starting at a kindergarten (from the perspective of drones stuck in sector US), we get to face the mind numbing schedule of juice time, nap time, music time, snack time, recess time, and other activities that the kids don't need or could get on their own.
Going on in grade school, we get to learn about the exiting world of 'teamwork', having a 'positive attitude', 'how to set goals', and other barfy-warfy coreless labels. You sacrifice some trees to make some pointless paper projects to add decorations to your desk. With gym classes you waste most of your time doing pointless exercises that you could have done without an instructor. In 'music' class they persuade you music is all bad, by exposing you to **shudder** the likes of Raffi, and other dumbening agents. History is a joke, where it emphasis’s hierarchy, dates, labels, fear, idol worship, and ignorance. Told from the perspective of the conquerors, and rulers of the status quo, it no wonder kids find these classes dreadful to sit through. Art class is a joke, as you pay a teacher to draw and create junk on your own. Math can only be taught to oneself, to which the teacher doesn't add too much to the text book. Higher level math is taught to give math majors jobs, and not to act as a means to an end. As an end unto itself, we are inundated with that which we could have learned on our own, when we needed it. Let's be honest, folks... Do we need to devote so much of our time to balancing equations? Proofs? It is pointless busy work, as calculators already provide this capacity, and means to come up with such without calculators can be sought out/created as needed. I always here from engineers and computer science majors how they never use math on the job site. Reading class exposes you to the flawed taste of your teacher. Why should I have to suffer through the likes of **shudder** Black Beauty, when I could and do read on my own? It's so stupid... Band is filled with kids forced by their parents to play an instrument, playing god awful music (that could be accomplished without an institution), and participating in the chief mind-numbing hierarchical nonsense of them all, marching band.
The truth about the education system came out, when the school board got complaints from irate soccer-moms who when school gets cancelled due to snow storms, complain about finding somebody to take care of the kids. Sigh, what we really have is an exorbitantly expensive daycare system...
Going on, we have the likes of economics (a joke). Where an inherently subjective science is taught as objective from the capitalistic/statist perspective. No longer is there political-economics, but just economics. The drone that gets paid to regurgitate this statist nonsense does so because this is how he was taught, and whoever pays the piper chooses the tune... Property is a given. Nobody questions the origins of wealth, but once you have it this determines future wealth... From there 'supply and demand' states the those with supply must extract the highest wealth from those who demand for the best economy. Such an important class that is filled with empty labels, pointless mathematical graphs, and ultimately lies...
Much of school is devoted to non-teaching functions. Eating in milk breaks and lunch (where if the institution were efficient kids would be out in time without a need for lunch), subsidized corporate slop filled with toxins. Much time is wasted here, to which it essentially social time for the kiddies. A lot of resources are wasted on infrastructure, with million dollar expansions, to make space for more hoop jumping classes, expansive offices, and to ensure a 10 pupil to teacher ratio (necessary to get extra money from government, even though the classes are taught in lecture mode.) So much resources are wasted on sports, it's not even funny. I don't care for school spirit, and if you want to show everybody you are the champions, go organize without subsidies from the working class. (How on earth did this ever get mixed in with education?) Much resources are wasted on administrative paper pushes (who earn the most). An elaborate bus system is also needed to shuttle kiddies to their favorite cattle yards. Morning bus has a high standard deviation, which means you waste lots of time waiting, and worrying if you miss the bus. Once you get out of the squirrel factory, you have to wait for the stupid bus to arrive (in my case on average 45 minutes after school close, I kid you not). No fun when it is freezing out...
The teachers are the worse part. Know-it-alls, that are the dumbest in all of society. Chosen because of networking and the buddy system. That or your English teacher can coach baseball... (more evils of sports) I attend a university with a big education school, to which doesn't really attract the best and brightest. I've seen the courses they are required to take, and they are a joke. Teachers are prime example of what the French say: 'Knowledge is as jelly, the less you have of it, the more you spread it around.'
College is a joke. Essentially a networking hub, where kids go to party, get drunk, and establish job connections. Much is inefficiently taught, or just flat out wrong. The courses are fluff, and are ends unto themselves, not means to an end. Everything is a part of pre-requisite tree, where the only way they can get the students to take a course is that is needed for another need course. Pretty soon you have a long string of prerequisites, without a point.
The whole education system revolves around test. Everything is taught not for its intrinsic value, but how it relates to the upcoming test. They are poorly written given the inherently subjective nonsense the teachers teach. Much of the test revolves around rote memorization that quickly evaporates, when the kid leaves the class.
To the teacher, it more important for Johnny to know his math tables, while he still hits little Suzi. Everything revolves around grades, prerequisites, and the business world. The grades and such are an expression of the insecurity of the teacher, as they attempt to give meaning to that which can have no meaning. Information is not taught for its intrinsic worth... No wonder so many people from the institutions are so messed up and ignorant...
Most worthwhile information to be taught revolves around unteaching misinformation that has already been taught. Institutionalized schools are designed to hold you back, not aid in your development. You don't learn about life from festering in a boring brick building, but by living it.
What we have is a Gestapo, fascist, conformist institution to indoctrinate the populace. A reflection of societies insecurity... The teachers are so insecure they must lock you up in these cesspools, with truancy laws empowering police to punish you, if you escape.
We get the endless mindless mantra from the parent drones, that we need to devote more resources to 'education'. It is fascinating that they never state, ‘we need more gym class’, or ‘we need more Econ classes’, but just 'education'. The ignorant emphasis labels and not what they represent, for their labels are but illusions... The teacher unions are a fake union. They are the privileged class. Working in cushy work conditions, they get summers off, and benefit from true blue collar work to which they are totally ungrateful of. They demand to be paid more than those who actually contribute to society revealing themselves as parasites of bourgeois through the tax system (that with withering away of the state we would get rid this statist class).
We don't need all this. Parent can teach kids how to read (like my Mom taught me, and Tintin comics did the rest). Once you can read, you can teach yourself, (the only way you actually learn). You can use books, internet, or voluntary tutoring (money corrupts).
It so worries me that some leftist overemphasis this institution as an end as opposed to an means to an end. Institutions have one and only one priority, and that is to perpetuate their existence. These illusions must recognized for what they are…