State Theory of Learning

The list below comes from Ned Vare's School is Hell Blog an associate of his wrote it in reference to the US Public School sytem. I never eally looked at it like this before but do think it kind of sums up state education.

State Theory of Learning.

1. Children must be forced to learn
2. Learning requires teaching
3. Schools are the primary site for learning
4. Learning requires rewards and punishments
5. Children should be segregated by age
6. Knowledge and skills can be learned without context
7. Children’s work must be continuously judged and graded by others
8. Knowledge is divided into “subjects,” studied in “units” in linear sequence
9. It takes twelve years to learn the needed knowledge and skills
10. Education begins and ends when children enter and leave school
11. Central authority must decide what children should know, and when
12. Uniformity is the goal of education