Tee Yaps

Society teaches us to listen to authority and be submissive and obedient. This is how most children grow up in the west.

From grades k-12 you are taught to sit at a desk for 8 hours a day. Only getting out of your seat when you are granted permission. You must seek permission to use the restroom. You are constantly being told what to do. You are conditioned to only leave class when you hear the bell ring. I would argue that prison is better than this.

Even asking questions in class, may get you ridiculed, or give the perception that you are less intelligent than the rest of the students, leading to shame, so you avoid it.

This is how western public schools are run.

Why?

The system of schooling we have today comes from Horace Mann. He is known as the Father of American Education. His model of public schooling is the one we have today.

his system that we have today was modeled after a Prussian prison. Mann noticed, in his visit to this prison, that the inmates were very obedient and unquestioning.

He thought to himself,

“How do i replicate this in public schools?”

And that is the system of schooling we have today. More or less.

So despite what most people believe. School is not meant to educate.

“But why would they do this? Don’t they want the future of America to be smart and educated?”, You ask.

They want smart and educated, but to be empowered? To have the confidence to take initiative without authority? I dont think so.

Education started to become mandatory around the time of industrialization. Where large corporations started to emerge. Ford. Carnegie Steel.Standard Oil. This would make sense. Large corporations need employees to work for them. Who are the best kinds of employees?

Ones that listen. And do what they’re told, mindlessly. They don’t ask questions.

Before this it was not uncommon for American people to forego schooling. I would not say they were uneducated because they were very self-sufficient.

They could grow their own food. make their own clothes. and also RAISE THEIR OWN CHILDREN. they didn’t need public schools and pedophile teachers to raise their kids for them. Anyways…

it was also common in the late 19th and early 20th century for someone to order a house from a catalog, where the materials would arrive on a train. and you would build your own house. from scratch

All these things were common in people that were “uNEdUCaTED”.

Today, since educated people have the money to outsource all their problems, I dont think its uncommon for people with college degrees to be unable to :

change a tire

change a car’s oil and filter

simple work around the house. (i.e fix a leak. cover up a hole in the wall, install tiles in the kitchen. etc)

one of my friends doesnt even know how to wash dishes or do laundry.

All people with college degrees nowadays know how to do is flutter their fingers on a keyboard.

To conclude: college degrees dont mean much. it does not demonstrate any type of competence. it may indicate incompetence actually.

and society is realizing that too, we are seeing more and more recent college grads struggling to find jobs.

if you go back 100 years. completing high school guaranteed you a good paying job and a good future. It was not common

That is the norm now. and you shouldn’t expect to get a good paying job just for completing high school.

In fact, if you completed high school, today. you are a loser with no future.

Now, this is becoming true for a college degree. If you have a college degree, you are a loser with no future.

that piece of paper thats called a degree is more useful if you wipe your ass with it than if you frame it.

NOTE:

This was more of a rant I realize. Could have been more informational/ critical. but I defitinitely showed my bias and my emotional undertones. idgaf tho. Hence the name teeyaps. 🙂