Education

Created 05-11-19
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Education

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Education
The Big Three success stories of western culture: "Education" (classrooms, exams, certificates), Clothes, Pictures
The Big Four failures : Truth, Guilt, Christianity and Planning.

Mandeville: they want to be educated only because they think that this will allow you not to work.

They all want to school, mothers suffer at the fields to earn the fees, but they learn nothing there: no books, ignorant corrupt teachers, "sports" (running after a rope tied cavera ball), goals of two branches because donated goal posts have been stolen/used for housing or burning, and singing the rest of the day.
In the west the formal subjects taught (math, language etc.) are of course of no importance at all compared to getting the students used to discipline, being on time somewhere, socializing, following orders and getting used to the Western day and week patterns of working, that is: fitting them in society. Same in African schools, though the type of discipline acquired there is not so much self-organising, preparing, be in time on the right spot, but simply waiting and obeying to the whims of today's fools in charge who typically has no time tables, no teaching schemes. Teachers come and go at unpredictable moments, decisions what to do and where are taken on the spot.

The African "school" a curious local cultural adaptation of the Western concept.

School Certificate holders turn out incompetent. (Crested Crane abiturients unable to coock samosa's kicked out restaurants in one day), yet, big sacrifices for school educationc

ZEPP's failed compass-ruler teaching session (measuring the third angle of a triangle foundered on inability to grasp the procedure of compass-ruler measurement)