[Amber H.]

Amber's soap box part 1

I think I might understand what you’re getting at Erodge.

When I was considering home schooling for my son, I talked to many teachers and found some published accounts of their experiences in the public school system.
If there is a conspiracy, the teachers are most likely not part of it. So many of them want to help their students reach out beyond their potential, truly learn and apply themselves. They desperately want to affect a positive change in society and build up the generations that follow them. Sadly, they often find their hands tied by the long tradition of beaurocracy and red tape that has evolved over many years.

It’s not a conspiracy; so much as it is a series of habits that were acquired during the industrial revolution. Back then, the factory efficiency model of training, and educating the masses made sense. A higher percentage (of people) needed to be prepared for the kind of mindset repetitive factory work required. Our society, lifestyle, economy, and future depended on it back then. Have you ever wondered why children have in straight rows in the classroom for so long? Such attitudes and methods were highly effective for that current industrial society.