2025-08-29
We don't feature much about the state of schools in our country, because it's a long time since I was at school, and no doubt the changes since then have been enormous.
A few years ago David Adelman asserted that schools today are no place for children - but the catch is that nobody has time for home-schooling these days (even if they knew how to do it) so parents send their kids off to the State's tender care.
We did that ourselves.
There they get the State's one-size-fits-all education by artificial intelligence - in other words, there is a rule for everything and the rules must be followed. Regardless of whether the kid actually needs a bit of TLC or a clip around the ear (only joking!) he/she/it/them/they/<insert your pronoun here> gets what the State in its infinite wisdom eventually prescribes provides ...having discussed the matter in all the appropriate committees with all the appropriate local "services". And if you are lucky, with the parents.
It's a bureaucratic jungle out there!
And though we were somehow spared the worst of the State's education system, we didn't escape our share of the consequences.
And yet - there is one key difference between education and indoctrination - whereas education teaches a child to think for herself/himself, indoctrination teaches a child to learn everything that the experts tell it - and thus NOT to think for itself but to "trust the experts". So we get the absurdities of "Climate Armageddon", pseudo-pandemics such as Covid, pseudo-science such as virology, a galaxy of woke pseudo-genders, many pseudo-cures such as chemo-"therapy" and radio-"therapy" that will likely eventually fail to cure under the watchful care of "our NHS", and (I no longer doubt) a totally false view of world history as well as of science.
Worst of all, we now have a pseudo-government of puppet pseudo-politicians who we must now consider run the world not for us, but for secret services and quite possibly unseen powers that seem to be doing their level best to start WW3.
But I digress. Kids should be learning by doing and should have the opportunity to try as many different ways of doing as possible. Crucially they should gain confidence in themselves and in their own judgement in that process. Yes, there's obviously a place for a classroom but mainly as an adjunct to explain the theory of what is being learned through practice.
That confidence in themselves and in their own judgement is exactly what will give them freedom from the diktats of misguided and/or malignant "experts", and all the other pseudo-people.
It will give them independence.
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