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What is the perversion of the school system?

The school buys the effort of learning with the promise of a higher future social status.
She doesn't learn to deal with problems.
School therefore inculcates the notion of caste.

The two dimensions of education

A complete education involves learning:

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to do by yourself,

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to do in a group.

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 elevator

The republican school has claimed that its caste system has become more just since 'everyone has the same chances'. This has two major biases:

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How is having intellectual abilities a less unfair mode of selection of the privileged than simple birth under the old regime?
In this sense, receiving poor grades can be seen as an oppressive conditioning system aimed at getting the individual to accept their future disadvantaged social status.

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It is largely the family social network that determines an individual's success.
The American model of the 'self-made man' is the exception put forward to hide the statistically significant reality.

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.
In point 2 we tend to substitute that to practice this or that profession, you must have this or that diploma, which more or less guarantees that the individual has the desired knowledge, without necessarily being able to assess its solidity. We thus circumvent the problem, which has the dangerous effect, particularly in democracy, of citizens remaining individuals who are easily manipulated by opinion media and social networks.

Methodology

Many 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 deeper

Refer 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.
Also refer to the question 'What conditions must be met to produce serious reasoning? Problem solving.' for a more precise presentation of what problem solving is, and to the question 'What is the modern scientific method?' to understand the difference between science and beliefs.

Wikipedia article regarding social mobility
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