>>114490Lol. You're wrong, and not in the way you think I think you're wrong. School isn't about restricting movement, it's about controlling what you think. There are several ways school controls thought:
1. You're always being watched (even when you're not), so be good. Always.
This is drilled into primary school kids from a young age; they're constantly under surveillance and everything they do, think, or say can (and will) be used against them. This inhibits freedom of thought from a young age, because ultimately the message students learn is "if I do something different to what they want, I get in trouble." The has undesirable effects when trying to teach them 'critical thinking' (funnily enough most teachers cannot think critically about anything, my evidence is how they are completely played by the media).
2. Effort + Behaviour = Success
It's not necessarily wrong to say that working hard yields results, but it is wrong to expect students to care enough about each subject that they'll try hard in it. I cared about my GPA, so I did "well" in all subjects (the quotation marks are because I got straight A's, but A's are not indicative of actual understanding. Any trained monkey can get an A, but you'd be a fool not to play the system to your advantage).
If GPAs weren't a thing then I would've tanked English because I found the media analysis to be… basic (What I read elsewhere was much more insightful, but if you pull out McLuhan or Debord on your English teacher then they'll probably not know them [because most English teachers have, themselves, only followed the prescribed curriculum], and thus the argument will be lost on them. Many such cases!).
3. The curriculum
The curriculum is the most powerful way school influences thought. All talkers are propagandists, and all teachers propagandise in their own way.
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