(Another great quote on the problem with socialized education)
"For today’s generation, their teachers’ outlook is an initiation into stupidity as a normal state.
The average teacher represents the result of an education process that fosters parroting.
Those thirteen years of classes are such an obscene spectacle that it’s actually a miracle anybody gets through that kind of teaching by example.
All of that is a major assault on human intelligence.
The electronic media are an excellent barrier against that. In ten years all subjects could be computerized in a fantastic, lively, entertaining way.
Teachers will not be able to keep up.
The coolness system is also related to the institutionalization of stupidity through state schools.
The children sit around in those compulsory classes becoming increasingly defeatist, increasingly defeated and increasingly listless.
Of course, as a new father, I must worry about things that never bothered me before.
I’m already horrified at the thought of teachers I know.
If I imagined having to hand my child over to people like that for five hours a day I would become a crazed killer – or somebody who wants to change the world for the better."
(German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, interview from here: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Exaggerations-Conversations-Interviews-1993/dp/0745691668)
