>>13070756I could elaborate a lot on this post, clarifiying some of your conceptual mistakes and your mistaken belief that credentials are an accurate reflection of a person's ability or even his worth overall.
Is the school system evil? Define evil.
To understand the actual purpose of school, you need to understand that school is just one part of the system. Therefore, a part that by definition can't act independently of the system as a whole. Ultimately, the way children are taught and treated in school must undoubtedly reflect the way people in general are treated by the system.
Student - teacher dynamics turn into employee - employer dynamics. Because modern-day corporations demand cheap, reliable and subordinate personal, (because that increases profites), our school also demands cheap, reliable and subordinate students. Children are conditioned by the school system in a careful process to become such employees.
Methodes include such things as grading their work, thus evaluating their capacity of fulfilling required work quota, making psychological profiles of children in order to single out those that will not be good employees in the future. Ever noticed that psychiatric disorders like ADHD, autism, oppositional defiant disorder or dyslexia, learning disabilities, that are commonly diagnosed in children, always revolve around the child's capacity of producing things, fulfilling quota requirements and generating net-worth? Never, at any given point, will someone ask the question how the child may feel or why it behaves the way from his/her own perspective. That's not the point of psychiatric counseling. It's only about trying to turn people into entities as profitable as possible, to be discarded eventually by the corporate state, once they're too old and fragile to produce anything of worth.
