miércoles, 4 de enero de 2012

Tanuky's Truisms: Education

Truism 1: The educational process is invasive and abusive on the student. The goal of systematic education is to perpetuate the system.

Truism 2: Systematic education is an act of cultural terrorism. The herd will determine what education should be.

Truism 3: The teacher wants to perpetuate itself on the student. A student that does not succumb to the intellectual rape of the teacher will be branded a trouble maker. The relationship between a teacher and a student is a incestuous one.

Truism 4: Talent is seen as a threat. A truly talented student is coerced to lower is capacity so not to offend the common herd that surrounds it.

Truism 5: Fellow students will see it as a raise in the bar, a show off that need to be brought down. Teachers will despise the talented student because it will require raising the bar, which implies more work for the teacher.

Truism 6: Education seeks to homogenize the student population. It is a mean to equalize the population toward the mediocrity.

Truism 7: In the best of cases the standard is the average, the most common denominator. In the worst the lowest common denominator, the slowest or dumbest student, will be the standard.