[typos preserved]
>be me
>4th grade
>bring 3 sharpners to school
>friend tells me thats a lot of sharpners
>bring 3 more sharpners the next day
>friend gives me his sharpner to grow my collection
>start collecting more and more sharpners
>go to stationary every week to by more sharpners
>collect about 70 sharpners by the end of the month
>start bringing a tiny bag to carry thoes sharpner
>english teacher asks for a sharpner
>offer her the bag thinking she'd be impressed
>sees all my sharpners and writes a note to my parents
>only allowed to bring 1 sharpner
>idea.jpg
>make a huge sharpner out of cardboard
>dad helps me to color it with red and silver spray paint
>display it on my table during the english period
>get sent to the office
fun days
Eng teacher missed the opportunity to bring a giant pencil
Besides, why do they only allow for one sharpener? Seems like a complete bullshit for the sake of forcing compliance
School often represses creativity in favor of compliance.
Doesn't have to have a reason. The teacher finds something strange, you are punished. Think of blonde hair in Japanese schools.
In my parents' times, going to school in jeans was forbidden (in center Europe).
Yup. Because schools primarily serve to create workers. Actual education is merely permitted when it does not interfere with the main aim of creating workers
It's an industrial era system in the 21st century. What could possibly go ~~wrong~~ right?
I don't think teachers are thinking about creating workers. They just apply the way they were raised.
But applying without thinking doesn't mean that it doesn't serve a purpose, it just means they don't know what the purpose is
Not on Lemmy, here everything bad is because of capitalism, humans would be perfect if they hadn't bitten into the capitalism apple.