Most people consider school to be a grim necessity to be accepted, endured and survived.
School, as nearly everyone freely admits, is dull, unpleasant, and designed to build mediocrity. It is a mapping of the world of ideas into a sequential bureaucratic presentational system, with generally awful results. The very system of curriculum, where the world's subjects are hacked to fit a schedule of time-slots, at once transforms the world of ideas into a schedule . A curriculum promotes a false simplification of any subject cutting the subject's many interconnections and leaving a skeleton of sequence which is only a caricature of its richness and intrinsic fascination. The teacher controls access to the subject under his or her own viewpoint.