Group Learning (Not Teacher-Led Discussion) Makes Children Better Decision-Makers

By Christina Lavers

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

“The world got compulsion schooling at the end of a state bayonet for the first time in human history; modern forced schooling started in Prussia in 1819 with a clear vision of what centralized schools could deliver: Obedient soldiers to the army; Obedient workers to the mines; Well subordinated civil servants to government; Well subordinated clerks to industry; And citizens who thought alike about major issues.” ~ John Taylor Gatto

Schools have never been about the needs of children. Since their inception they have been about creating a populace that caters to the desires of the ruling class. Corporate leaders and their allies in government have continually worked to shape education to fit the requirements of industry. They are not interested in developing independent, self-directed individuals with the capacity to think critically and originally; they benefit from creating a malleable, suggestible, obedient and competitive population that accepts being instructed, monitored, assessed and controlled from the top down.

One would expect that as we advanced as a society our schools would become more progressive and increasingly able to meet the diverse intellectual and creative needs of the populace. Instead the opposite has happened. Schools have become ever more focused on standardisation and uniformity which means that creativity is stifled and those who don’t learn in the same way as the majority often fall through the cracks.

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