If you read my magnum opus yesterday, you know a lot more about ThriversEd than you did before. Here’s something I figured out only later:
Schooling : Education :: Rape : Love-making
The way we’ve done schooling so far – not just lately, but since the introduction of the classroom model of “efficiency” – has been a graduated consensuality in the same way that the rape college women protest is borne of partial-but-not-dispositive consent.
What would work better than coercion in – and to – the classroom? Why might work better than rape in your marriage?Photo by: JOHNNY LAI
Rancorous transactions do not recur voluntarily. Schooling is for its every victim every day more rancorous. Why must this be so? Escape is blocked. It’s a Cautious tyranny. You know, like rape. Thirteen years’ worth, at least.
Yes, it’s a purely metaphorical rape – mere coercion, not a visceral scourging. But a violation is a violation, and to to deny your own past violations by classroom bullies – both by the paid professionals their sadly-underfathered freelance enforcers – is to confess either to deceit or delusion.
Why do teachers have such a tough time with their charges? Why do all of them hate school – the kids and the teachers?
It turns out people don’t like to be raped, not even metaphorically and in bulk.
What would work better than coercion in – and to – the classroom?
Why might work better than rape in your marriage?
What could be more obvious, right?
