We want to do well in school for a clear reason:
Because – as it is often said – it is the main path or path to achievement in life.
– Few of us like the degree of excellence of its own –
We want it because we clearly want one day to have a satisfactory job, a nice home
Respect others
but sometimes
When everything seems reassuring, something confusing happens
We meet people who succeeded in school but failed to live. vice versa.
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Who knew exactly how to please their teachers must now be walking at the same pace in the law firm,
Or move to a rural town hoping to find something better.
The path that seemed guaranteed to lead to success ran into the sand.
In fact, we can not be surprised: the curriculum has not been designed by people who need to have a lot of experience,
Or talent in the outside world.
The curriculum did not take its engineering from the elderly, loyal people living here and now.
They have been intellectually influenced by all sorts of random forces over hundreds of years of evolution –
Which, among other things, formed the curriculum of the Middle Ages
The ideas of some German educators in the nineteenth century
And the interests of the aristocratic court communities.
This helps explain many of the bad school habits that are instilled
– They suggest that the most important things are known to us originally
And that is all it can be. They can not help us but they can warn us of the dangers of creativity.
They want us to stand up and wait for something to be asked.
They want us to ask for permission from others. They teach us how to offer the expected instead of the change.
They teach us the process of spreading ideas rather than creating them.
They teach us to expect others to have power – rather than to let us imagine – rather than inspiration
In fact no one knows what is happening. They teach us to trust that.
They teach us everything but two skills that determine the quality of adult life,
Find out how to choose the right job for us and learn how to make a satisfying relationship.
You will find them teach us Latin and how to measure the circumference of the circle
Before they teach us the core issues: work and love
And that not all we can do to succeed in life is to fail at school.
Good life requires us to do two very difficult things
Be a very good boy or girl for twenty years.
At the same time they do not believe in the absolute validity or seriousness of what we are required to study in the long term
We need to be completely obedient
While we are cleverly rebellious without inner shame.
Translation: team translate @autrjim
Because – as it is often said – it is the main path or path to achievement in life.
– Few of us like the degree of excellence of its own –
We want it because we clearly want one day to have a satisfactory job, a nice home
Respect others
but sometimes
When everything seems reassuring, something confusing happens
We meet people who succeeded in school but failed to live. vice versa.
Previous stars
Who knew exactly how to please their teachers must now be walking at the same pace in the law firm,
Or move to a rural town hoping to find something better.
The path that seemed guaranteed to lead to success ran into the sand.
In fact, we can not be surprised: the curriculum has not been designed by people who need to have a lot of experience,
Or talent in the outside world.
The curriculum did not take its engineering from the elderly, loyal people living here and now.
They have been intellectually influenced by all sorts of random forces over hundreds of years of evolution –
Which, among other things, formed the curriculum of the Middle Ages
The ideas of some German educators in the nineteenth century
And the interests of the aristocratic court communities.
This helps explain many of the bad school habits that are instilled
– They suggest that the most important things are known to us originally
And that is all it can be. They can not help us but they can warn us of the dangers of creativity.
They want us to stand up and wait for something to be asked.
They want us to ask for permission from others. They teach us how to offer the expected instead of the change.
They teach us the process of spreading ideas rather than creating them.
They teach us to expect others to have power – rather than to let us imagine – rather than inspiration
In fact no one knows what is happening. They teach us to trust that.
They teach us everything but two skills that determine the quality of adult life,
Find out how to choose the right job for us and learn how to make a satisfying relationship.
You will find them teach us Latin and how to measure the circumference of the circle
Before they teach us the core issues: work and love
And that not all we can do to succeed in life is to fail at school.
Good life requires us to do two very difficult things
Be a very good boy or girl for twenty years.
At the same time they do not believe in the absolute validity or seriousness of what we are required to study in the long term
We need to be completely obedient
While we are cleverly rebellious without inner shame.
Translation: team translate @autrjim
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