In this episode we go deep into what wounds and damages school likely had on you.
Outline notes below:
The grim reality of what it is and what it does
Schooling’s history
– Your own (and everyone’s) generational history
Schooling’s true purpose in creating soldiers and workers
- Indoctrination
- Ruining critical thinking
- Creating dependence
The institutions that are fighting for it:
- You parents
- Your neighbors
- Your peers
- Your school system
- The industrial and service economy
- The government
The ten lessons of schooling (note: write these in how they are inflicted upon the reader)
Gatto’s seven lessons of school:
- Confusion
- Class position
- Indifference
- Emotional dependency
- Intellectual dependency
- Provisional self esteem
- Constant surveillance (One can’t hide)
Veinotte’s three lessons of school:
- Apathy – Covered this one with Gatto’s indifference
- Obedience
- Conformity
Other damaging effects (these could be reordered or categorized)
How we learn and our relationship to knowledge will be covered next episode
Limited viewpoints
- History as government, presidents and war
- Limited political/societal views
- Controversy is avoided
Bad use of time and a general inconvenience
- Took away your ability to manage your own life and time
- Ruined opportunity costs
- A waste of time
- Lack of sleep and exhaustion
- Constricted vacation
- Removal from family
Controlled and Ruined Feelings
- Lack of happiness
- Boredom
- Peer pressure
- Stress
- Bullying
- Bad socialization and lack of individuation
- Health, nutrition and safety
Bad preparation for adulthood
- Useless credentialing
- The mandatory march to college
- Extension of childhood and the postponement of adulthood
- Limited or meaningless networking
- No exposure to varying age groups and adults
- Adults as authority only
Did school even make you…?
- Poorer or limited your ability to earn and have a relationship with commerce
- Soldiering – Does school prep some to join the military.