What Do Schools Teach?

Good students wait for a teacher to tell them what to do. This is the most important lesson of them all that schools teach children just to wait. We must wait for other people, better trained people than us, to tell us the meaning of our lives. Don't be the boss of your own learning. You have to wait for the teacher to tell you which book to read,. how many pages to read, write, how to do a paper. And this trains people to do when they become adults is to wait for some one else, some expert, some boss, some politician, to tell you what's meaningful - and i hated shakespeare in school. Only when i left school could