Dare Question The Rules of The Archaic School System

The archaic and toxic school system poses a threat to our current and future generations. Learn more about how we can escape it.

The traditional school system is archaic and toxic and must be changed. Until then, we must explore home-schooling and community home-schooling as optional methods of education. Until it is changed, we must find ways to escape it and limit its hold on us. The school system we have now does not cater to the needs of individual students.

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The binding curriculum

The curriculum is often standardised. This means that students are required to learn the same things at the same pace and using the same method regardless of their interests or abilities. If they are not able to keep up, there are little to no alternatives for them.

If the students are unable to adapt or conform, teachers may even resort to bullying the students. This is a form of punishment for their inability to thrive off of their methods. And such treatment will make the students believe that they are stupid. It is the equivalent of judging a fish by its ability to climb a tree. Yet the problem lies not with the mind and abilities of the student. It lies in the teacher’s inability to teach anything beyond what their curriculum tells them to. And in the system’s archaic curriculum and the lack of appreciation and respect for teachers.

The curriculum they are expected to follow and the school system in its entirety is corrupt, misogynistic, racist, ableist, and outdated.

It is designed to smother individuality, break creative thinkers and create generations of drones that are dead inside and do only what they’re told to do and what is expected of them.

Blind obedience

We are only taught what the system will benefit from us knowing, and only the highly edited versions of the chosen subjects. Most of it being theoretical and irrelevant as far as survival in modern society goes. We are taught not to think, but rely on the accuracy of what the system “thinks”. And to deem it as our truth and compass in life.

We are taught versions of history that make society, the government, taxes and authorities sound like fairy tales. And versions that wipe the slate clean for the government in that country. Such subjects are designed to paint a picture of the government that controls it as the hero and other countries as the villains.

The subject of religion is taught in a way that makes us believe we’re shown and taught about all religions and beliefs. But in reality, we are taught too little about very few beliefs, all in the perspective of one religion. They are sneakily trying to hide certain religions from us and paint others as insignificant. All while guiding us toward believing in the one they deem to be correct. And that religion is more often than not Christianity.

The risks involved

We are sending our kids to school to learn, but instead, they are being wingclipped and misinformed. They are trained to think a certain way and to fear and oppose anyone or anything that stands out. This approach to learning breaks spirits, paints over individuality and is detrimental to mental health. It creates adults who think their worth lies only in what others think of them. That it lies in what results they can achieve, and how well they can adapt and blend in society.

The obsession with grades

The school system focuses more on grades than on the actual learning process. The pressure to achieve high grades leads to a toxic and demeaning culture of competing and comparing. A culture where students are pitted against each other rather than shown how to work together to learn and grow.

This toxic culture often leads to high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression among students. It can even lead to trauma, eating disorders and even suicide. It pushes children and teenagers past the point of no return. This is detrimental to their confidence, sense of self-worth, their mental health and their physical health.

Preparing for the wrong future

The school system isn’t producing graduates that are adequately prepared for the real world. The focus on standardised testing and memorising facts does not provide students with the necessary skills to succeed or to survive as adults. Furthermore, the education system does not adequately prepare students for the process of applying for jobs or better yet, turning their interests into income sources. Nor does it prepare them for other essential life skills.

It lacks emphasis on practical skills. The curriculum often focuses on theoretical knowledge, which is rarely applicable in real-life situations. We need a more hands-on approach to education that allows students to gain practical life skills.

What the children aren’t taught

Students are not taught how to turn their interests and talents into income sources. Or indeed how to create multiple income streams. They aren’t taught how to pay bills, handle their taxes or how to create and stick to a budget. They don’t get to learn the benefits of herbal medicine, how food can be our medicine or what the pursuit of natural health looks like in different cultures. Students aren’t shown how to grow their own food, how to re-grow food, how to handle food waste or how to cook food from scratch. Nor are they taught how to mend, sew, crochet, knit or embroider. How to alter clothes or create their own. 

Our children are exclusively being prepared for a 9 to 5 within the system, a modern-day factory job. And this will force them to outsource all of their needs.

The expectations of modern society

We are expected to go to school for a minimum of 11 years, but usually between 15 and 20. After that, we’re expected to work for 40-50 years. That’s 40 hours a week – not including overtime or time of commute – 50 weeks a year for 40-50 years of our lives.

We’re expected to take out student loans and a mortgage too. All of which leads to us having to work more hours for a longer period of time. Somewhere between our 20s and 40s, we are expected to have children. This is the case even though most countries don’t have adequate parental leave.

The financial effects

Housing costs, food costs and the costs of healthcare are so high that parents will likely have to prioritise their income and go back to work too soon. They will then have to pay for child care and strangers will spend more time with their children than they do.

This enables the system to brainwash and mould the children from a young age. Always in an environment where the parents are absent. They will be at work and their children will be at kindergarten and then school.

Most of their childhoods will be spent inside a building, being raised by strangers. They will be taught things others have decided they should learn. And they will lack knowhow in areas others have decided they aren’t allowed to know more about.

The result

We are creating generations of people who will struggle with mental health, expressing emotions and relating to others. Who will be ignorant and lonely as a result of having been trained like soldiers in a system that only wants to earn money off of them.

Their creativity and pure spirits are killed off. And in place of their creativity, they are left with a sheep mentality. Destined to mindlessly follow the direction of the herd.

An archaic system

The school system has been rightfully criticized for its inability to adapt to the changing times. It has not changed in the last two centuries, but the world around it has changed completely. The system did not have the students’ best interests in mind even back then.

It was all about grading them like pieces of meat and preparing them for a life working in a factory, clocking in and clocking out. It was all set up to create financial wealth for the system by turning the people into mindless drones that gave up more than half of their income in taxes. And they dedicated the majority of their lives to a job without question.

In addition to these issues, the school system is also criticized for being inequitable. There are significant differences in the quality of education provided to students based on their statud and where they live. This means that students from disadvantaged backgrounds are often left behind due to a lack of resources. And that in turn creates a cycle of poverty.

Benefits and risks involved with the digital age

In this digital age, it is essential to prepare students for a life that is heavily influenced by technology. We must teach them the benefits as well as the many dangers of technology. Both the physical and the mental risks as well as the strain it places on their brains, their eyes and their nervous systems. They should be taught when and how to use technology and how to do it safely. Both in terms of ergonomics, mental health, screen time and general balance in life.

The dangers of AI

Now with the rise of AI, we are actively trying to push humans out of everything that matters and replace humanity with technology. It has gone too far. As an example, people are even using AI for emotional advice or relationship advice. The very notion is beyond ludicrous.

We push human contribution out of the written word, out of linguistics, out of art and design. We endeavour to generate as much of our work as possible. By doing so, we make sure whatever we produce is void of our own thoughts, opinions or spirit.

Free marketing for the system

The main danger of all of this is that AI isn’t intelligent in the sense that it can think or act on its own. It will always need direction. It is more of a search engine than anything.

All the information it has to search from is generated from thoughts, opinions and information. All of it comes from the people who trained it. They were hired to train AI to help corporations earn more and spend less on hiring. To spread the system’s agenda, and essentially to line the pockets of the fat cats as it does the government’s work for it.

The suggestions it makes and the writing or translations it produces are tainted by narrow-minded and toxic beliefs. It has been trained to base its generated responses on those beliefs.

For example, the belief that the governments of the world are faultless rulers that control humans. And that we should be grateful for their control. That we should mindlessly worship and follow them. To question nothing, whether it is an authority figure, the healthcare system, the school system or any other toxic part of modern society.

Hello darkness

All this will accomplish is a world void of emotion. It will lead to generations of soulless people who have forgotten how to think and feel.

Throughout history, there have been religious people all over the world who have feared demons and hell.

But in my opinion, humans can be scarier than any demon and this world we’ve built? It is much closer to hell than any description or painting that we’ve been shown.

The future we want

What kind of future are we hoping to give our children? A world where they can’t afford housing, food, health care or clothes? Where every necessity has become a luxury accessible only to the 1%? A world where they must rely upon money, only there is no way for them to earn it since technology has taken over?

We are killing the planet, abusing the animals and pushing wild animals towards extinction, and now we want to erase all sense of community, emotions, love and soul? We want to ruin music, movies, books and art by letting technology generate it all? The humans involved must be profoundly stupid for even thinking for a second that this would be a good idea.

Humans have lost their way

Humans are creators of destruction and we do not deserve to be at the top of the food chain. We have completely dropped the ball and lost the right to “rule” the world.

I would not be the least bit surprised if we single-handedly caused an apocalypse or if Mother Nature decided to reset itself and through natural disasters or an asteroid wipe most of us out, sending us back to the start of our evolution.

The only way to stop this spiral of destruction is to start thinking for ourselves and start changing our lives.

The truth about the system

The system doesn’t care about us, it has never cared about us, and all and all, it thrives on our health issues, our misery and our fear of what would happen if we don’t follow along with whatever it tells us. Legal does not always mean right. And illegal doesn’t always mean that something is wrong.

What will not benefit the system’s way of using humans as cash cows will forever be illegal unless the system can monetise it, control it and earn more money by distributing it.
Whatever keeps us miserable, sick, dependent and drained will always be legal and easy to access.

If people are taught and shown they don’t matter for long enough, they will claim it as the truth.

And humans have been taught to believe such things for centuries.

What do we do now?

If we are ever to change, we must stop letting the system break us down and start building a sense of community, start building each other up. Bring back humanity, human contact and doing things by hand.

Step away from anything that tries to do our thinking for us.
Stop listening to the news and reading the myriad of ignorance-spreading articles that are shared online.

Stop trusting blindly and start to question everything.

Truly think about the decisions we make, the consequences of those decisions and whether we are doing something because we were told to, taught to or because we feel it is right. 

In conclusion:

Stop being a sheep and stop being a follower.

Get your head out of the sand, open your eyes and see the world as it is.

Only then will you gain the strength and the will to step away from it all and start anew. To do better. To build a different life and change how you spend your days.

Dare to question it all.