Santorum And Harvard Anarchist Agree: Public Schools Must Be Abolished →

When evaluating schools, as Marshall McLuhan asserts, “the medium is the message.” All of school pathologies make sense when you understand that people – which include children – do not enjoy or respond well to being subjected to a repressive environment.  While it is possible for a North Korean POW to learn calculus under duress from their prison guard, it is reasonable to assume they will: A. associate math with incarceration; B. despise the inmates who learn for appearing readily complicit with their captors; and C. try to forget the information the moment they are free. Sound familiar?

Despite trillions of dollars expended, schools cannot eliminate problems like bullying and illiteracy because it is the nature of school that exacerbates these problems. You cannot reform school just as it is not possible to reform slavery.