↩ Homepage of the site 'What to do with your life?' What is the perversion of the school system?The school buys the effort of learning with the promise of a higher future social status. The two dimensions of educationA complete education involves learning:
School deals almost exclusively with the first point, and it is in families, as well as in the playgrounds of schools, middle and high schools, that children learn, by their own means, to manage groups. The republican school and the social elevatorThe republican school has claimed that its caste system has become more just since 'everyone has the same chances'. This has two major biases:
A satisfactory education system... should ensure that every baccalaureate: 1) masters the four stages of problem solving method, and is sufficiently trained in practicing it to be able to do it informally in pairs, 2) understands and respects the difference between a scientifically established fact and a simple belief. It is clear that today the majority of people who have completed a complete course (known as BAC 5) do not correctly master these two points. Point 1 means that the individual has become efficient at working in a group. Point 2 means that the individual knows how to sort out knowledge and charlatanism, and therefore can acquire additional solid knowledge if necessary, by his own means. MethodologyMany people have thought deeply about the purposes of school, as well as educational methods. However, it seems to us that the particularity of the school question is that as soon as we approach it directly, we lack support to respond to it in a non-ideological way. On this site, it was only after answering all the other questions that the satisfactory education system became obvious to us. Go deeperRefer to question 'What is a successful education?' which deals with the broader subject of education, of which the school system is only one modality. Everything that is said about the question of education is applicable to the school system. Simply, in dealing with the present question of the school system, we have decided to concentrate on highlighting its fundamental contradictions at the level of motivations and values. ↣ Wikipedia article regarding social mobility
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