The habits of following the rules and keeping one’s thoughts “inside the box” are inculcated early and thoroughly in our modern industrial educational system.
Despite claims to the contrary, our current industrial educational system does not encourage or often even tolerate original ideas or questions or ways of doing things. And, how can…
The habits of following the rules and keeping one’s thoughts “inside the box” are inculcated early and thoroughly in our modern industrial educational system.
Despite claims to the contrary, our current industrial educational system does not encourage or often even tolerate original ideas or questions or ways of doing things. And, how can it, when 30 or more kids are warehoused ina single classroom, and the teacher is expected to get all of them through a proscribed curriculum?
Those who adapt best to this system are those, generally, who are rewarded with the good grades They can learn what is given to them, regurgitate it on tests, and thus progress to the next level. And to college, and eventually to medical school or elsewhere.
So, you see, they are accustomed to jumping through the hoops, to not rocking the boat much, to regurgitating what they have been told. Not all of them, of course. But many. And they have zero idea that this is the case. Zero.
The habits of following the rules and keeping one’s thoughts “inside the box” are inculcated early and thoroughly in our modern industrial educational system.
Despite claims to the contrary, our current industrial educational system does not encourage or often even tolerate original ideas or questions or ways of doing things. And, how can it, when 30 or more kids are warehoused ina single classroom, and the teacher is expected to get all of them through a proscribed curriculum?
Those who adapt best to this system are those, generally, who are rewarded with the good grades They can learn what is given to them, regurgitate it on tests, and thus progress to the next level. And to college, and eventually to medical school or elsewhere.
So, you see, they are accustomed to jumping through the hoops, to not rocking the boat much, to regurgitating what they have been told. Not all of them, of course. But many. And they have zero idea that this is the case. Zero.