I went to public school in the US for K through 12, and then to a public university (UC Santa Barbara). I skipped a few years and finally graduated with a BA in Math in 1978, just after I turned 19, so I spent about 14 years in the public school system.
What did I learn in school?
1. How to take tests
2. How to memorize and regurgitate
3. How to conform and get along
[[MORE]]4. How to not conform and not get caught
5. Teachers often know less than their students
6. Real education happens with your peers, not in the classroom
7. Most people are jerks
The most valuable lesson:
Society doesn't care about truth, honesty or the ability to think critically. What's important are rules, conformity and political correctness.
The purpose of American schools is not to teach reasoning skills, or how to get and hold a job, or anything along those lines. The schools are there as babysitters so both parents can work, and to teach the values of the state and obedience to the state.
If you think I'm exaggerating, just look at modern history books as an example: horribly distorted and full of outright lies. It's a joke.
Uneducated minds are then more susceptible to propaganda from the mass media and religion. Throw in some new-age stuff about how feelings can be used to discover things about the world around us, and you end up with a society that's so confused it becomes self-destructive -- and government schools are at the root of it.
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