When your mother is a teacher form the old school style of teaching, school IS about learning. No matter what else went on there it was STILL about learning.
Yeh, I got bullied, a lot. I was a small teenager and the only thing that stopped it was fighting back.
I lost a lot but I ALWAYS left a visible mark.
The bullies eventually got tired of answering the question, "Who did that to you", having to answer with my name, and getting the, "That LITTLE kid?", reply.
"School is the cheapest police."The lessons of schooling aren't what's learned on the blackboard. The curriculum is in the context.
-Horace Mann
The seven lessons of schooling are:
1) Confusion
2) Class position
3) Indifference
4) Emotional dependency
5) Intellectual dependency
6) Provisional self-esteem
7) No privacy
This is the result of American having adopted the Prussian schooling system of the mid-nineteenth century, under the urging of Horace Mann. The goals of Prussian schooling were the following:
The Prussian mind, which carried the day, held a clear idea of what centralized schooling should deliver:The current situation is actually worse than this. But basically, that's what school's all about, Charlie Brown.1) Obedient soldiers to the army;
2) Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms;
3) Well-subordinated civil servants, trained in their function;
4) Well-subordinated clerks for industry;
5) Citizens who thought alike on most issues;
6) National uniformity in thought, word, and deed.