Do androids dream of clockwork sheep?

I was directed Here by postvixen's journal.

The implications of todays educational structures really frighten me. I don't mean "oh, that's bad" frightened, I mean up-all-night-in-a-cold-sweat frightened. I think it's REALLY scary how schools are caught up in funding, which are based on test scores, which encourages narrowly defined, over-rushed lessons on how to score well. The point of schools these days isn't about learning, and it isn't even really about teaching what the Government wants you to think. It's about processing children through a system to get scores on a test which determines cash-flow. Teachers aren't concerned about whether children learn or not; teachers are penalized for doing too good a job, and are rewarded for passing students down the line, regardless of what they do or do not know.

Math is good to know, and in some vague sense it can still be taught in this sort of... system. But science can't, not really. And certainly language can't, or literature, or philosophy. Children are spoon-fed data which they're meant to regurgitate back, bit for bit. They aren't meant to think, or analyze, or anything else which makes humans rational beings. They're made very much to be little computers, little cogs in The Machine, and I think I for one can tell you just how stupid and mindless computers can be.

It's times like that, laying in sweat-soaked sheets at night, that I wish I'd been an English Major.

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