Teaching Cycle

Teachers teach teachers how to teach. Now for more detail:

1. Children are forced into the schools.
2. Students are indoctrinated with pro-schooling propaganda.
3. Most students accept the propaganda as fact.
4. Some students who receive good grades incorrectly assume that their grades reflect their interest in education and their teachers deserve the credit.
5. Among this group are students who develop a desire to enter the teaching profession.
6. These students maintain loyalty to their teachers throughout their childhoods.
7. Upon completion of high school, they continue on to college while those who lack blind loyalty to the profession fail to get the grades required to continue.
8. The future teachers pay a fortune into college as it already is in order to pursue a degree in education.
9. In order to graduate, they conform and mindlessly accept what they are told about how to teach.
10. If they succeed with the system in its current form, they receive a degree.
11. They use the degree to find a teaching job.
12. Since their entire understanding of their job came from accepting the schools as is and they respected their past teachers, they teach the same way as previous generations.
13. The schools maintain the status quo, and progress simply doesn't happen.
14. A new generation of students enter the system.

Our current approach to schooling is based on acceptance of the schooling process as it already exists. Those who see the flaws are locked out of the profession, and the schools don't make any real progress. If we ever want to improve things, we need to listen to those who see the problems in the schools rather than those who don't. Sooner or later, we need to break the teaching cycle.