The Death of 'Education' is to be welcomed.

The Death of 'Learning' is to be grieved for.


Today I was talking to an intelligent woman who was interviewing me...we got around to schools (gee whizz, don't know how THAT happened..big grin)....She has a 15 year old daughter, who's been studying for her GCSE's since 3rd Year (yes, I'm so old that's what it used to be called)...She told me she's worn out, her daughter that is, simply wants to sleep and sleep, because she has so much work to do, so many tests to pass...Her daughter is fed up, depressed and miserable. She has no energy and doesn't want to go out.

The other lady then began to tell me about her little boy, who's just 3. She told me she had lived in Denmark for most of her younger life...and there she hadn't taken ANY tests until the age of 14. She literally could not believe what's happening over here, how young children, REALLY young children are being tested, tested, tested.....

I have a friend who's worked in a playgroup, as we used to call them, before they became early learning centres, or pre-school learning whatsits...She's been there for over 10years now..and in that time she's watched it become more and more controlled...parents now want end of term reports on their 3 year olds, to see 'how they're getting on'.....

You wanna know why the Death of Education is a good thing? Because it's KILLING the LOVE of LEARNING!

Education has become a BUSINESS!
Our children are the punters, along with their stressed out parents.

By forcing more and more tests on kids you sell more and more books on how to get them to pass and become a success..and the DVDs too, and the extra tuition fees, plus all the examination schedules which come from er...somewhere.....

How many politicians have 'shares' in Education?
How many Corporate Bastards too.....

People are fed this lie that without these examinations they won't get jobs...Well, they won't get jobs WITH them, folks...

Meanwhile, their childhood has disappeared in a Sea of Stress and they've LEARNT one thing..and that is to hate learning, to hate adults who force them to learn, to hate tests they're forced to take, to hate their parents for sending them to school in the first place....so they replace their parents with Gangs, and they go out drinking their souls away, or shutting themselves away, sleeping, exhausted and very, very angry...

Not ALL children are doing this, before someone tells me the bloomin' obvious, but many, MANY of them are...

They LOATHE school and all it stands for..and the teachers need to ask WHY, then set about changing it, standing up to the people who are making the stress, telling them to sod off and let them teach, instead of behaving like uneducated autonomons who do everything they're told, even when they KNOW that what they're being told to do is so, so wrong.....

Just my opinion though, so don't get yer knickers in a twist, for after all, what do I know? I've only had two children severely damaged by a system that doesn't give a toss about their souls, only about their grades, so the institutions can pat themselves on the back and tell themselves how terribly well they're doing, whilst ignoring the bodies of the children who've committed suicide through knowing nothing but stress since they were put into The System.