School thoughts. [Taken from Live Spaces Blog, 12 abril 2006, 0:40]

I spent 14 years forced to go to school. I did not like it, but I was trained to go. 5 days a week. Every month. Every year.

Normal school as we know it today is a tragical fake, a consequence of society's bloat. Kids are physically, mentally, and sometimes emotionally clustered into school teaching and discipline. Parents give up their childrens' nurturing and education to teachers and their classmates. Of course, yes, that's how the world works now. But shouldn't there be another option? I just think that anything, anything at all, when applied forcefully onto people, is not right. That includes standard education. Even if it WERE the best option... WHY MAKE IT MANDATORY???? PEOPLE WOULD KNOW IT WAS THE BEST OPTION AND TAKE IT! But that's society acting. It wants to protect itself from its members. It's afraid. It's natural. Society depends on the predictibility of its members to be easily managed. How to make them predictable? Make them the same. How to make them the same? Make their lives as similar as possible. The result: School.

That probably wasn't school's initial intention. But that's what it's become in many places. Guatemala included. Another brutally frustrating paradigm of society that most people accept as a given fact of life. It's a frustrating, linear, unexciting, unreal, 14-year spanning path.

You know WHY mandatory stuff isn't good? Because people feel they have two options: to accept to do it willingly, and not to. If they accept it willingly, they're not doing anything special. Want to or not, they'll do it anyway, right??? And if they DON'T accept it willingly, they HAVE to do it anyway, and frustration follows immediately. And with it, depression and anger. And then you see kids vandalizing, stealing, and sometimes murdering... even when they don't really need to.

Just a thought.