Post by twetch#6688

1. Age School groups people according to age. This grouping rests on three unquestioned premises. Children belong in school. Children learn in school. Children can be taught only in school.
   I think these unexamined premises deserve serious questioning.

2. Teachers and Pupils By definition, children are pupils. The demand for the milieu of childhood creates an unlimited market for accredited teachers.
   School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching.

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And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

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Schools create jobs for schoolteachers, no matter what their pupils learn from them.

3. Full-Time Attendance School, by its very nature, tends to make a total claim on the time and energies of its participants. This, in turn, makes the teacher into custodian, preacher, and therapist.

What about the obligatory curriculum?

Program

In french, « curriculum » translates to « programme »