The basic assumption that schools exist to create functional, successful people is in error. Since the turn of the 20th century, schools were designed to create a compliant and unquestioning work force. Teaching skepticism? How would politicians and priests ever continue to stay in power in the face of a skeptical population. With the end of most jobs and employment opportunities for regular people, schools are now nothing more than feedlots for the for-profit prisons slave labor camps, the only growth industry the U.S. has left.
The basic assumption that schools exist to create functional, successful people is in error. Since the turn of the 20th century, schools were designed to create a compliant and unquestioning work force. Teaching skepticism? How would politicians and priests ever continue to stay in power in the face of a skeptical population. With the end of most jobs and employment opportunities for regular people, schools are now nothing more than feedlots for the for-profit prisons slave labor camps, the only growth industry the U.S. has left.