School Is Not “the Real World”

It’s the depressing time of year again in which young people are ported off to school again. This brings to mind some of the conversations I’ve had with students and teachers on summertime, the “real world” and school.

School Is Not “the Real World”

First, if you are one of those school-goers who believes that returning to a world of desks and periods and busywork paperwork and bell-regulated life is a “return to the real world,” I don’t know what to say to you. I can only say that summer – especially if you spent it exploring, playing, learning, and building – is a far better reflection of a real world (and one worth having).

The real world does not reward regimentations, and it does not reward good grades. Only if you choose to remain in academia forever can a break from school be anything but an improvement on your relationship to a “real world” where you can grow into your own person. Allow yourself that break from artificiality. Don’t shame it as some “guilty pleasure” or indulgence granted by school admins…… Read More


Here is a favorite of mine about “government schools”:

A Prison By Any Other Name (SCHOOL BRAINWASHING SYSTEM, BEHAVIOR CONTROL

*** How many Americans understand the fact that our schools were copied from the admitted Austrian state brainwashing, schools from the 1870’s?
Charlotte Iserbyt and John Taylor Gatto have written extensively on the subject. Look under the resources menu for more information.
OR that they are funded by implementing both the 1st and the 10th planks of the communist manifesto?    ~MFP