Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality:
Welcome to School
School

BURN!!!!!


Welcome to school. The place where you are taught, but you do not really learn. The place where you listen, but do not really hear. The classes are about to start. You line up in your uniforms, to fit the style. You wait for the teacher to come into the room, lit only by flourecent lights. A dull room, with square desks, brown everywhere, little boxes, just like the one their trying to fit you in. The teacher stands in front of the class, and teaches you what you 'need' to learn to make it in this world. You are taught to wear what they want you to, because uniforms are important, you are taught that appearance is number one, and not to challenge that. You are taught to obey the principles, set by a man with a similar sounding title. Never question your authority. When you do, you are punished. Never show too mouch free though, when you do you are punished. Learn as they want you to, when they want you to, and only what they want you to. Any learning that goes against what they teach you will result in further punishment.

If you see anyone who doesn't fit in the box, you mock them, you beat them, you destroy them. Even if you school does not have a forced uniform, you still have a uniform. Only this uniform has much more strict rules with it. If you break it, you don't get a detention, as you do at my school, rather, you get rejected, ejected, and destroyed. School is a place to learn conformity, a place to be assimilated, a place to be lied to. A place so full of half truths and hypocrisy, that you learn to accept these as the way the world is. There is no need to try and change the world, not when school has taught you to submit to it, to conform to it, and to accept it.

Do you really think that teachers know about the problems in this world? Do you think we are really taught how to make a difference? No. We are taught how to fit into a 9-5 job. How to sit at a desk all day, under artificial lights, doing work that we really don't find interesting, that can't change anything, but that the powers that be said we had to do. We are taught to accept the present system, to work with it, to keep it going, to find a job to make the money, to propel the company forward in its bid of obtaining the status of a monopoly.

This form of schooling if forced on us. If we want to live, we must partake in it. We must gain the qualifications to get somewhere in the world. Knowledge is a wonderful thing. We must learn to think rationally, to think logically, and to have the knowledge to back this thought up. Without that we cannot make any change in this world. But what the schools do is take this away from you. Instead of teaching how to think logically, they teach you how to submit to the logic of those in power. Learnig is important, but being taught is not. It is said that a man who has been taught everything from someone else has less wisdom from someone who has learned less, but done so on his own.

Of course you must be annoyed with school. School was not made to be a place to have fun, but a place to be assimilated. Learning is important, but does it need to be done at school to be good. There are many other options out there. There are many books around that teach you how to teach yourself, and still get the qualifications you need, without going through the school system. You will learn how to think on your own. You will not be forced to be something that you shouldn't be. You will learn how to be free from the social chains that they force on you at schools.

To learn more about this, check out Why School is a lie. It will give you more information on this, and where you can get help to get out of the authoritarian system that our schools are. You will be free, you will think free, you will learn free.

No don't get me wrong, I am not saying leave school straight away. Feeding your brain is important. School may be right for you, you may be able to stay strong, and not sell out, not conform, and learn. There are some teachers who will let you learn, they will teach what you do need to now, and what can be helpful. History and economics are great subjects for someone who is revolutionarily inclined to take, so long as they realise that the versions they are being taught my be very biased. Economics would of course be taught by a capitalist point of view, but if you keep your mind open, you will see how economics highlights the reasons why capitalism cannot work for a long period of time, and sooner or later will break. We are already seeing cracks in the wall of American Capitalism. But go out seaching. Go to the libraries, look around on the internet. There is much more to learn about the world than what the schools teach you. I have done for more learning on my own than I have done in schools.

The point is don't stop learning, don't accept their lies, and don't conform to the ways of this world.



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