Why does the government feel that we need to learn in an institutionalized envirnonment?

Question

I've learned more on the internet and the news than I do in school so why does the government want all children to learn from a stranger while your forced to sit in a chair and if you leave your suspended or in detention.

Answer 1

Lucky for you that you have Internet access. The government hope is to ensure that all children receive a quality education and met required State standards. Is it a perfect system. NO. But, many children don't have home computers to be able to have Internet access. Public libraries have computers to use but your limited to 1 hour a day. Keep up the good work learning. Perhaps you can become a member of congress and help create a better way for the public school system. Kudos to you for learning more than just in the classroom.

Answer 2

They don't.

If you really had learned so much that you don't need school you would know that.

They provide every kid with free school if they want it, and they require that every child gets some kind of education. You can be home schooled in every state. It is up to parents if they want to send kids to the free public school, pay for a private school, or teach them at home.

If you don't like school talk to your parents they are the ones that make you go not the government. If they want to home school you they can. As long as you get some kind of education the government does not care where it comes from.

I would advise against home school though. Sure you have to sit and study in public and private schools. They want you to do your work and will give you standardized tests. However what job will you get where they don't expect pretty much the same things from you? Also the social interaction at school is as important as what you learn there.

What you learn on the internet and news is current events and history for the most part. Did they teach you how to read? Can you learn math from them very easily? What about chemistry? Physics? What about social interaction? Why do you trust the news more then a teacher? The news is people played to sell you soft drinks and cars. There entire goal is commercial ratings. In school your teachers goal is teaching you there subject so you can score good on standardized tests and make them look good. Who do you think cares more about how much you learn and who just wants you to buy things advertised on there show or site? The people bringing the news and making the internet sites are no less of strangers then the teachers.

Answer 3

Once upon a time America was a highly industrialized nation. We had factories for cars, tvs, clothes, just about everything. People were gainfully employed and happy, and most children were schooled either in a one room school house or at home by their parents. Fast forward a few years, and the people working the factories are getting to retirement age. They need replacements. Hmmmmm, where to get them. Well, the government decided to build these huge schools where children can become automatons. Now they have the replacements for the retiring factory workers. Children were brought up in school to know how to sit for 7 hours and follow orders, the perfect little robots to work in the factories....That's why we have public school. Not all children learn the same way, and the public schools opperate so that everything is offered to all 35 students in the classroom in the same fashion. And when a student or two don't catch on, they are labeled either ADD or learning disabled. Hmmmm.....much to ponder!

Answer 4

Society feels that institutionalized learning is how it has to be because it doesn't know any better. It's spent about 100 years like this and has come to believe that that's simply how things *should* be and can't imagine how things could possibly work differently. It has forgotten the people of the past and how they were; forgotten that many leaders, scientists, authors and more never went to school, never interacted with a ton of same-aged peers, never had a set minimum for curriculum and expectations as they were taught at home by parents or tutors who decided the curriculum themselves; forgotten that people in the past functioned fairly well socially without instutitionalized learning.

The people of the past still knew how to do business and engage in activities with others, lead others, etc., and even many went on to higher learning without the experience of sitting in a classroom of same-aged peers for 180 days out of every year. It can be hard to open the mind to other possibilities when you are too comfortable with what you already have and have forgotten the past.

Answer 5

Control. Many folks want to excercise control over others. They want them to think certain thoughts, and behave just so.

And many of these people have recognized that this can be accomplished by conditioning kids in their early years. It's been going on for centuries in the US, and the Huxleys certainly recognized its usefulness.

One thing I've always found ironic is that you get suspended or expelled for skipping school. HELLO, isn't that what you wanted in the first place?

I have no doubt that you have learned more from the internet than at school. Learning depends on your learning style, and schools can't always accomodate that.

However be careful of a few things:
1. News is badly reported, and frequently wrong.*
2. Sometimes you are learning stuff in school and you didn't realize what you learned until later.
3. There are still some good teachers who can teach you more than the info from news sources. Also, the total can be more than the sum of the parts, a good teacher can show you how to recognize that.

Good luck w/ your pursuits and self-education.

Answer 6

Maybe the government believes that type of environment is necessary for your development and education. Maybe you need to be forced into capitulation and subjugation at the earliest age possible. The purpose of the US government is to control, regulate, and tax.

People actually have the audacity to believe they’re free, because they have a few options to choose from. Maybe you’re learning at a young age that our, so called, freedom is actually a delusion! I use the word delusion for a reason.

I wish you luck in your endeavor to answer this question.

Answer 7

Many parents don't care if their children are educated. This is the way the government has of ensuring that every child gets a chance at learning.

Answer 8

The Goverment believes that they are more capable of shaping a student, when in fact they cannot. If a student cannot learn in their way, then they are catagorized(i.e. slow,special ed...). This is all for the mistaken belief that a Room in a building with a person forcing information down your throat is good for Information Assimilation,Socialization and Learning to follow directions(all of which THEY say is important to function in society). If the Goverment cannot control,they cannot get their way. They can only get their way if we sit there and nod our heads,keep our hands in our laps and keep our mouths shut.

Answer 9

The government is a big machine. We are cogs in the machine. For all things to work...they need to replace the old cogs with new cogs. Of course, all cogs must be uniform and willing to turn together in the same direction...
Otherwise, the machine comes to a screeching halt. Look up "anarchy" or "revolution" and "coup"... homeschoolers are allowed to at least develop a smidge more freely...but still end up in the big machine when they graduate...but may have better ability to recognize social ill.

Answer 10

in a word?? MONEY! they don''t tell you that for every student that is in their schools,the shcool gets paid. They,of course will tell you otherwise, but the government gives money to schools so they can keep operating. That is why teachers,gov't ppl and such hate homeschooled children. I homeschooled my kids and got alot of flack for it and gave into the pressure to send my kids to school so the state wouldn't take my kids away for "educational neglect." That is what ppl call it when others homeschool their kids. It is a technical term used to scare parents into placing their children in an institute so that the schools can get $ for " teaching" the children.