School Is Prison
Channel: ItHadToBeSaid
Date: 2019-09-14

Why do we go to school? To learn to obey and conform? Or do we have higher aspirations than that? This video is about how school crushes childhood and habituates us to obey this capitalist system without question. 

This video is part 1 of a series on school and education, why school does not serve us but serves the people in power, and what to do about education for a new generation.

Recommended reading:

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15843125-free-to-learn

Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225850.Dumbing_Us_Down