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The purpose of school is to lock up kids and adolescents in order to free up the adult population. Any education happening is incidental.



the purpose of school is to train kids to get up on time, to endure an unpleasant commute to an unpleasant place where they engage in unpleasant activities all day for the better of society.


I found the edgy 14 year old!


I'm happy to response that I'm neither 14, nor old enough to have realized the idea on my own before I came across it.

>And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this fake world. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done. And I have no problem with this: in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose.

http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html


Please don't do this here.




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