libertariansuccialism:

deepshowerthoughts:

School isn’t actually meant to teach you real life skills, it’s actually meant to get you used to waking up early and going to a boring and miserable job every day.

A lot of people read this and think it’s just juvenile shit kids complain about. But this is literally how mass education started. The necessity of disciplining formerly farming people, used to setting their own schedules, into the rhythms of the industrial economy, was why mass education was born.

The education system seriously needs to change. Considering the number of “gifted kids” who become totally washed up or burnouts when they get older, and the number of “gone cases” “back benchers” or “idiots” who  become successful it’s safe to say success in school doesn’t always translate to life success.

I mean just LOOK at South Korean students, the entire country is stone cold proof of this. They have the highest test scores in the world, but also the highest suicide rates (with the average age of suicide attempts being TWELVE, that should tell you something). And many of its “class toppers” wind up in clerical, repetitive, corporate drone jobs with low pay. 

Schools are putting more of an emphasis on creating compliant robots than on creating well rounded individuals. This, in modern society, cannot go on.