Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor. John Taylor Gatto
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The institutionalized classroom is a place where the teacher rings a bell and the student in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize something he may not even understand. That is because teachers care, however, they see education as a means to an end. Education is used as an instrument by which to mold society, and so they do not really care about their students.

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Education

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