Not too long ago, I posted my top 10 list of stupid things teachers say. I have decided to do another highly subjective top 10 list. This time, the topic is things that I hate about what so-called public schools are doing.
#10: Learning or memorizing
Teachers use an overly broad definition of learning. This includes the development of skills and abilities as well as memorization. Unfortunately, memorization appears to be the primary use for this terminology. Memorizing facts, usually in a short-term manner, is a primary focus of schools. Other forms of mental development are neglected if not discouraged.
#9: Government control
A truly educated society is a threat to the government’s power. This means the government has a serious disincentive to properly educate. The government is overregulating a natural process to the detriment of the general public.
#8: Credentialism
We have created a society in which nobody cares about who people are or what they have to offer. All we care about is acquiring pieces of paper that don’t accurately reflect ability. Not everybody learns well in a restrictive schooling environment, and this includes some highly capable individuals. We have effectively prohibited the Franklins and the Edisons of the modern world from contributing to society.
#7: Authoritarianism
There are reasons that authoritarian governments overwhelmingly embrace so-called public education. Teachers run their classes in an authoritarian manner. These schools are training citizens from a young age to show obedience to authoritarian figures.
#6: Ageism
Schools see children as little more than their ages. Age segregation is foundational to this model, ensuring individual needs are not met. Additionally, teachers tend to view their age difference as a form of superiority.
#5: Child exploitation
Teachers frequently lie to students in order to push an agenda. Yes, there is propaganda in our schools. There are other forms of child exploitation as well such as unequal treatment of students who have different personal views and some forms of forced labor (students doing work for the benefit of the school).
#4: Undermining the learner
Schools have a serious history of undermining the role of the learner in the educational process. This encourages passivity in their educations while doing serious damage to the natural desire to learn. Simply put, children need to have more of a say in their own lives.
#3: Minimum standards
Schools don’t aim for average because they want most students to graduate. They aim for attainable. To ensure students reach minimum standards, they resort to an inefficient approach with a lot of repetition. As a result, all students will fall well short of their potentials. This also means that schooling acts as an obstacle to learning beyond standards.
#2: Abuse
The primary motivational tool used by most teachers is emotional abuse. Teachers promote a culture of fear where students do what they are told out of fear of the consequences. This is primarily done by emphasizing the implications of grades on futures. Other forms of abuse can also emerge such as sexual abuse. This results in mental health issues that can lead to suicides, violence, and substance abuse. These schools can and occasionally do have lethal consequences.
#1: Mental genocide
The culture of fear combined with intolerance means that students fear thinking the wrong things. To avoid thoughts perceived as wrong, they learn to defer to their authoritarian teachers. Students ultimately abandon thought because they fear thought. The schools are systematically destroying the thought process of American youth, which is why I openly refer to the process as mental genocide. Mental diversity is practically non-existent in schools, and the extreme intolerance of the teaching profession has led to what is possibly the most mindless era in the history of humanity.
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