Schools Of Degradation

In other times youngsters learnt the skills necessary for an autonomous existence in a largely self-regulating society. But in a society where power has replaced authority, where vertical structures have replaced horizontal structures, where obedience is prized more than initiative, young people are sent to school - where they learn passivity and boredom, where they are prevented from practicing skills that may save them from a future of wage labour, tired consumption and debt.
The aim of school is not to educate the child, but to degrade the child.
Before the times of universal compulsory education young people would sometimes attend school for a specific reason, to learn law, theology or medicine, for example. They would attend school for a short while, learn what they had to learn and move on.
But with the nationalisation of schools came conscription and indoctrination - first as cannon fodder for the factories and the trenches, obedient serfs of the State and the Nation - and latterly as consumers, wasting their power on trifles, reinforcing the hierarchy of the military bureaucratic gang.
Now children and young adults spend many years in the pursuit of qualifications of supposed learning, only to discover, after twenty years they know nothing, and are only fit for mind numbing repetitive labour.
Most essential skills are learnt at home, or independently at specialist colleges. Even reading is taught mainly in the home. If your parents do not teach you, there is a good chance that you will grow up to be functionally illiterate.
 How many farmers, plumbers, builders, plasterers, mechanics, electricians, cooks, roofers, nurses, joiners and so on have schools ever produced? None is the answer.
All school has ever produced is passive obedient plodders, dispirited and degraded, their energy sapped by enforced monotony, and being herded together hours on end with others,  deprived of the solitude necessary for creativity.
They are trained to buy and to consume, to obey, to perform relentless, repetitive tasks, to deny their humanity, to bow the knee before power.