"turned into"? I mean.. I have news for you about the power structure in schools...
there are a bunch of studies in pedagogy on how school "democracy" and "representation" are basically all show. (they're meant, of course, to "teach students about the democratic order", not to give them any rights in school; ironically, by doing that, they prepare them perfectly for life in "democracies"...)
In sociology, he term "total institutions", originally devised to analyze prisons and mental institutions, has been applied to schools.. a lot.
Also, there's the argument that it's quite obvious that knowledge retention from school approaches 0 (quick, name the geological layers. Do a differential equation. Tell me about the cause of the 40 years war. Or what it even was.) What IS learned, though, is how to live in a system of constant surveillance where the "guards" have a power you can't question or resist, ant the "tricks" students develop to carve out a tiny little bit of freedom within that system.
There is a reason they say 'put your kids in the system'. They really mean it!
"turned into"? I mean.. I have news for you about the power structure in schools...
there are a bunch of studies in pedagogy on how school "democracy" and "representation" are basically all show. (they're meant, of course, to "teach students about the democratic order", not to give them any rights in school; ironically, by doing that, they prepare them perfectly for life in "democracies"...)
In sociology, he term "total institutions", originally devised to analyze prisons and mental institutions, has been applied to schools.. a lot.
Also, there's the argument that it's quite obvious that knowledge retention from school approaches 0 (quick, name the geological layers. Do a differential equation. Tell me about the cause of the 40 years war. Or what it even was.) What IS learned, though, is how to live in a system of constant surveillance where the "guards" have a power you can't question or resist, ant the "tricks" students develop to carve out a tiny little bit of freedom within that system.
Indeed! It's good to keep putting this out and challenge how normies see most of these institutions.