Education class was the class that angered me today.
Why?
Because I realized how brainwashed public school has made people and god am I thankful I had four critical years away from it.

So, it all stems from Dewey again.

The class discussion was "What is school's purpose?" I was sadly disappointed to find that no one in my group had liked Dewey. They were all "He was so boring" and I was like "What?! He was awesome!" And then we got in a debate because I have very cynical views. "School teaches you to all think the same. Why do you think it's there and why do you think it's called an institution?" "School isn't anything other than opening a book and reading." Them: "Dewey's idea could be applied to public school?" Me: "What?! No! It is all about the community, about the sociological benefits of the school, that school should be centered around the home and that 'teachers' are just guides helping to foster ideas."
"I believe that education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living" ~John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed
I mean HELLO!!! That's the most sense I've ever heard, like ever. How can they just go along with this shit? The "School is meant to make you smarter and ready for the world" was the same thing said from like five out of five groups and my debate came up when my group members pointed out that I fiercly didn't agree with them. They called me biased but I'm not. I've just had that experience called homeschooling and even in college I'm sitting here thinking "how the fuck am I going to use this?" Sure, you can have a 'great' teacher but for me that is not good enough. "Well I want to know how you're going to use it in the real world. Not just open a book and be like 'read this'. I have had the experience of using goats as my biology project or just wondering why the trees change and looking it up or delving head first in to history to the point of dressing up in the period dress that I was researching. I was learning because I wanted to, because it had relevance to my life, not because someone told me to. It was home based and I had freedom. I taught myself crafts and learned the things that I found important, not things that someone told me are."

I am a critic for a reason. Great teachers are the ones that answer the 'how?' straight forward and honest. "How am I going to use this in the real world?" "I don't know, you won't." "Then why am I learning this?" "Because they told me to teach it to you." "Who is 'they'?" "Well the school and then the state and then the government and..." what it leads to Jesus? I don't think Jesus cares about the quadratic formula, okay?
The only purpose for learning is to understand, to understand to then manipulate to manipulate then to control and to control is to have power.
If humans were not control freaks with big brains we'd still be running around naked and hairy until evolution finally decides to change us. Right now the freakin' earth hates us because we keep making these things and antibodies and all that that we are not born with and just make. We are essentially still weak as human beings. We are so fragile without all of things. Maybe if we lost all them we would truly change biologically, we would grow truly stronger and if we die then that is the choice of nature, not us. Humans cannot simply submit sometimes you know.
It bothers me. It really does.
Ugh and don't even get me started on the theorems and thoughts I had in soc. Blend them with education and that is why I am going caboom.

Anyhoo, ignoring my tangent when I argued my side to the class the teacher was just like "YES! Exactly! How are you using 'this' out 'there?'" Afterward I talked to her a minute and she was like "I am so glad you said something different and you really got Dewey." "Cause he was freakin' awesome." "Not everyone in the class has had the experience that you did." "I know. I am really grateful for it."
But I had to run so it was really brief.

Still this semester my brain has been like UBERLY stimulated. Last semester was cool but this time I'm just like "Holy fuck!" and can't stop thinking these grand stimulating thoughts. It feels wonderful. I've got this fire running through me and all these questions and ideas rolling all around.
I love it.
I just have to be careful about not coming off as overly angry. I am just passionate and semi-frustrated at times and I am one person who has a voice and can use it. That is essentially part of the spirit of this school I think though, to raise your voice, to talk, to communicate and build community. You're with it or you're not.

And that is my rant of the day. Now I must do math homework.
Peace.
~Lo