What more could we want? I, for one, would want children not to be regimented as if they were soldiers, I would want them not to be drilled from an early age that the way to earn life’s rewards is to sit down, shut up and do whatever the grownups say. That has turned them into useful units of mechanized production, but it has also turned out generations of obedient, unquestioning slaves pumped full of jingoistic patriotism and religious bigotry, ready and eager to kill and be killed so the commanders of the machinery can live in bigger mansions, throw bigger parties and sail in bigger yachts.
The classroom paradigm is perfect for indoctrination, but learning only happens there by accident or because of pupils’ determination to extract something of value out of the tsumani washing over them to prepare them for the next test.
The children are already doomed by inertia to be a part of this ugly exercise, but for the grandchildren I would want learning to take place everywhere, with what we now call “schools” transformed into relics of an ignorance long past. I would want people who now call themselves “teachers” to redefine themselves as “learning facilitators” and be available in an open marketplace, either individually or as part of groups, helping people of all ages use whatever tools are available to satisfy their curiosity about the world.
I want to see people awakening to how government schools are indoctrination machines fostering the agendas of the powerful. I want to see a world where peace-loving people no longer have huge amounts of their money taken, shakedown-fashion, by The State and its armed thugs, and where this money has become available to spend on helping their kids grow to their full potential, using the innovative resources that have sprung up in a truly open, competitive marketplace.
I want to see a return to the time when everyone, freed from the tyranny of The State’s grinding taxation, had money left over to help those less fortunate and did … not because they had to but because they are human, and humans impulsively try to help when they see others in need. I want to see a return to children of the less fortunate being able to go to private benevolent agencies set up to help them grow and, in time, benefit all of humankind.
My dreams don’t do much for the rich, who would be the big losers when their pool of obedient slaves ran dry. All I can say about that is fuck them.
