Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?” But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lampposts, playing 'chicken' and 'knock hubcaps.' I guess I'm everything they say I am, all right. They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball. It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. "Or talking about how strange the world is. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this." She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. “Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around." Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.” Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself - educating your own judgements. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. There is nothing wrong with summer school.ġ0. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.ĩ. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.Ĩ. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.ħ. The new text books will arrive any day now.ĥ. Students must stay on campus during lunch.Ĥ. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.ģ. You will use algebra in your adult lives.Ģ. TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOLġ. These will be the years you look back on fondly. Your schedule was created with you in mind.ġ0. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.Ĩ. Our football team will win the championship this year.ħ. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.ĥ. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.Ĥ. “THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOLĢ.
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