Flaws of Schools
9/30/2000 From a dream in which a student is being pursued and hounded by the teacher for not conforming to the mold.
He answered several of your questions that weren't acknowledged. (A line from a student in my dream who was objecting to the teacher hounding out of the school a student who was not conforming with silence, but answering questions asked of other students.)
It takes a genius to recognize that the teaching methods of the school are defective. Einstein flunked math. The school system is designed to mass produce education for average students. Those above or below the average fall between the cracks and are lost. "Even Einstein wouldn't meet the certification requirements to be a teacher [since he was one of those who fell thru the cracks of the average filter]." (A quote from a private school promoter being interviewed by John Stossel on 20/20.) Bill Gates would not be allowed to teach at a business college since he is a college dropout. The system is designed to reward those who are average and punish those who are either under or over-acheivers. Those who can see through the flaws inherent in assembly line production of mediocrity are punished and rejected. Questioning the status quo is the basis of all learning, yet is punished by modern educational systems, where maintaining things as they are is the goal. But things as they are, obviously are severely broken, as anyone who is observant can see. If the status quo was good, we would live in a perfect world where nothing needed changing, where nothing could be improved. Yet almost everything needs to be improved, therefore is broken. Almost nothing is as good as it can be. The educational system is designed to produce machines who will leave things as they are and maintain it in it's current condition. Yet the current condition of the world for most people is oppressive, and designed to protect those who are not oppressed from seeing that they are a small minority, and that very few live as they do. Faulty systems that punish acheivement (changing the status quo) are very oppressive, and very pervasive.