Did School Make Us Stupid?

Well, that's quite a claim. Everyone must've asked themselves this question sometime in their life. I admit, there is no honor is defaming the school system that teach us about the world, the fundamentals that have pushed civilization this far.

But there is no honor in making a young person, sit on benches for 8 hours a day, enforcing data in their brain that the individual may or may not want to learn about.

Ah, Yes. I can hear some of you trying to dismiss the claim by proving that most of the people would not be able to survive in this harsh world without the afformentioned, drilling of information into the brain.

Let me be blunt, there is no solid evidence to prove that the educational style being carried on is the way society evolves and feed themselves. Just look at how much poverty and unemployment is there on this planet. I imagine there were no unemployment issues during the middle ages.

So am I just being obtuse? Trying to get humanity back into the middle ages? No, I quite like the new iPhone, and every other technological advancement we've seen.

But I ask you, are we being trained in school like robots to make Iphone the best phone in the Universe?

The one now seems to be much smarter than the owner itself. For the life of him, one can not remember his emergency contact's phone number.

And what about the kid told to sit on a bench and shut up for 8 hours a day? What's his future going to look like? Well, what's his youth going to look like, or wait, his childhood? He has none, as I see it. That child now knows a lot because of staring on the smartphone, and has become an old old man in a young body. If I may be as harsh to say, an unfinished life.

So what's the whole point of this dark gloomy write up? I think it's safe to say, the old ways have been useful in some ways, and detrimental in others. It's time we look at the direction of our species (and not the satnav on our devices), and structure our social institutions in a way that is complimentary to it.