We convinced ourselves that schools were primarily somewhere to put children while their parents were at work, and far fewer people now go out to work every working day, if at all, so far fewer people now go to school every school day, if at all. The problem is what we think that education is. If it is not the idea that nothing is worth learning unless it will get you a job or you could use it there, then it is this.
The thing about school refusal is that the wrong people do it. You can read a book anywhere, so what if our lot decided that, since there was nothing for them there, then they were not going to go? But no matter how much bending over backwards there was as if we did not exist or at any rate did not matter, that is never going to happen. More is the pity.
An afternoon with you would be more educational than most weeks at school.
ReplyDeleteI used to be told that by the Corbyn Boys.
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