quote: "Mother Culture's deception here is that schools exist to serve the needs of people. In fact, they
exist to serve the needs of your economy. The schools turn out graduates who can't live without jobs but
who have no job skills, and this suits your economic needs perfectly. What you're seeing at work in your
schools isn't a system defect, it's a system requirement, and they meet that requirement with close to one
hundred percent efficiency."
Response: Once again My Ishmael has proven to reveal yet another obvious truth that barely anyone see's until it is pointed out to them. This quote, to me, connects perfectly to our current government and its increasing failure to do anything at all useful for the common man. What I mean by this is that the US government cares more about keeping the corporations happy, fat, and powerful while they make Americans dumb, docile, and blind. At first when I started noticing this trend with the government I never looked to see just how far it reached until I read these chapters and realized that the government isn't just doing this on a scale that encompasses the media. It is also doing it down to the schools themselves, essentially, making brain dead lemmings out of most people before they even have a chance to make something of themselves. This not only infuriates me but it frustrates me to the point that I feel the need to attempt to come up with a better, not perfect, but better education model for a hypothetical government that is both capitalist and socialist (along with also being a true democratic republic). Essentially my current idea is to have a school that teaches you what you need to learn at first and then at a certain stage (varying from person to person) you chose a certain set of studies that fascinate you and eventually help you to get into the field of work you want to go into for the future.
It's very interesting to me how serious you took this quote and talked about it. I don't know if I agree with how you feel about the government, but your idea about making a school sounds like a very good idea that would actually work :)
ReplyDeleteI like your deep writing,how you expressed yourself though it.Your big words made it more interesting to me in a way and your point of view on this quote i agree with you because it's true and sometimes the people that are in charge think on there opinons.
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