Which is all very good, noble and all, but for a slight problem...
You're trying to buck the system, which is idealistic at best. When someone tries to do that, they're assuming that other people want this to succeed. Now, many people will say that they'd like a change in the school system, but, in reality, they don't. Or, not enough to actually attempt to do anything but mouth pretty words at you.
Most parents? don't really care. They're too busy to. The kids? They see their parent's lives, and they think "I'm not going to be able to rise above this," and let themselves be concerned only with the things that their parents are concerned with. (And, I'm talking pre-college kids, because I see the problem stemming from that age-group, not the college-group. It's like a glass ceiling for education and how one thinks.)
And, in reality, that might just be for the best. Those who are predisposed to think will think. They will seek out alternatives, they will have an interest in bucking the status-quo. You'll be able to recognize these kids by their choices. Choices in friends, choices in actions, mode of speech, and in literature. The others? You might interest them in a book or two, but in the end, they're going to want the sheep-mind that rote learning gives them.
Which, again, I think might be for the best. They won't take the time to learn to think, they most likely won't rise above the social strata that their parents are in, and that's okay. There are far more jobs that don't require a sense of thinking for oneself than there are those that do. And, in all honesty, those who don't have this interest most likely don't even miss it.
It's almost like taking our sense of "what's right," regarding freedoms and liberty and going to another country where women aren't given these freedoms, and being upset. We're upset for their sake. And, really, we have no reason to be.
While we would be beside ourselves if those freedoms and liberties were taken away, they aren't. This is their life. It's how they were raised and what they were raised to accept and want.
You can only show the door, but, in the end, most won't walk through it. Trying to buck the system? Isn't going to work, except in very small cases. Because, ultimately, we don't live in a society that allows it to work.
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You're trying to buck the system, which is idealistic at best. When someone tries to do that, they're assuming that other people want this to succeed. Now, many people will say that they'd like a change in the school system, but, in reality, they don't. Or, not enough to actually attempt to do anything but mouth pretty words at you.
Most parents? don't really care. They're too busy to. The kids? They see their parent's lives, and they think "I'm not going to be able to rise above this," and let themselves be concerned only with the things that their parents are concerned with. (And, I'm talking pre-college kids, because I see the problem stemming from that age-group, not the college-group. It's like a glass ceiling for education and how one thinks.)
And, in reality, that might just be for the best. Those who are predisposed to think will think. They will seek out alternatives, they will have an interest in bucking the status-quo. You'll be able to recognize these kids by their choices. Choices in friends, choices in actions, mode of speech, and in literature. The others? You might interest them in a book or two, but in the end, they're going to want the sheep-mind that rote learning gives them.
Which, again, I think might be for the best. They won't take the time to learn to think, they most likely won't rise above the social strata that their parents are in, and that's okay. There are far more jobs that don't require a sense of thinking for oneself than there are those that do. And, in all honesty, those who don't have this interest most likely don't even miss it.
It's almost like taking our sense of "what's right," regarding freedoms and liberty and going to another country where women aren't given these freedoms, and being upset. We're upset for their sake. And, really, we have no reason to be.
While we would be beside ourselves if those freedoms and liberties were taken away, they aren't. This is their life. It's how they were raised and what they were raised to accept and want.
You can only show the door, but, in the end, most won't walk through it. Trying to buck the system? Isn't going to work, except in very small cases. Because, ultimately, we don't live in a society that allows it to work.