They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
- John Lennon
When I think of school, I see a classroom full of students and a teacher, I see my “future” all depending on this word education. Ever since I was born I was taught that we (my siblings and I) must go to school to succeed in life and one day be able to go to college. We come into school knowing "nothing" to be taught and educated until high school and then we decide whether or not we continue on to college. But even then our culture gives more to those who follow this path of education because in the end we receive a better and high paid job. Is this a trick to keep us locked in this prison we call school? Or as John Lennon would say to just become part of the working class?
Teachers from pre –k to high school teach us how to be disciplined, to not question authority and adapt to the content given. Is this fair? Nope but who’s to stop this way of educating that has been happening for many many years. One is taught to stay in the class we are designated and if we need to use bathroom or want a drink of water, one must ask for permission and a pass. And for students these moments are our few minutes of privacy. Which might be the reason why students leave the class several times a day, because sometimes class can seem never ending. We learn to become depositories, just being filled with information that holds no meaning or significance. Like to find x – intercepts use the quadratic Formula or the Civil War began April 12, 1861, but why is algebra important to me? Or how much significance does the Civil war hold in my life? That we as students just accept our ignorance and allow teachers to teach us without knowing that we as well teach our own teachers. We just receive it and memorize making us more intelligent and "better" student to teachers.
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