Laws. Rules that define what is and is not allowed. Disobeying the law results in deserved punishment. They enforce your rights, making sure people don't impose on your freedom. Now what if laws imposed on your freedom? What if they were imposing on your parental rights, telling you how to raise your children? You'd be outraged wouldn't you? Utterly disgusted.
Well, they are. They force you to send your childen to school. You have no choice in the matter, except which school to send them to. Private school, public school? Maybe homeschool them, though even then the government still keeps tabs on you. The government doesn't interfere with what they eat, what they wear or when they go to bed. Why should it be allowed to decide if they go to school or not? It's such a major decision.
In it's current state, schools are isolated from the rest of society. Children, the most vulnerable of our kind, are forced to attend these secure institutions where they are fed not valuable learning material, but anything that the government wants. Parents should have a say in what their children learn, and the children themselves, not the government.
The current school system supresses creativity, individuality and produces obedient workers.
If the law is harming society and destroying children, then it must be changed. The only way we can do this is by spreading awareness and exposing the flaws of school.
You can help by telling others about this article and therefore joining the Free Education Revolution, or FER, which is about spreading awareness and exposing school's major flaws.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 24, 2011
How to Join The Revolution
You can join FER right now, there are no official leaders or any centralised organisation. However, we'd like to know that you're participating, so please leave a comment here.
1. Find out what FER is all about
2. Either tell others about this blog or FER, or download an anti-school flyer from here and distribute it:
http://i41.tinypic.com/9svz95.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1949/picture3by9.png
More flyers will be added.
3. Tell people about FER, educate them about school's flaws, tell people about this blog, this post, do anything you can to free the minds of those that have been brainwashed.
4. You can also join the growing anti-school community, which consists of like-minded individuals who believe in freedom, here http://www.school-survival.net/intro.php
1. Find out what FER is all about
2. Either tell others about this blog or FER, or download an anti-school flyer from here and distribute it:
http://i41.tinypic.com/9svz95.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/1949/picture3by9.png
More flyers will be added.
3. Tell people about FER, educate them about school's flaws, tell people about this blog, this post, do anything you can to free the minds of those that have been brainwashed.
4. You can also join the growing anti-school community, which consists of like-minded individuals who believe in freedom, here http://www.school-survival.net/intro.php
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
The Flag
This is the flag for FER, a better version will be uploaded soon.
Black represents defeating one's enemies
White represents peace
Eagle represents courage and intelligence
And the R stands for revolution
Revolution Resources
There is now a blog which provides resources such as flyers and pamphlets for the revolution here http://fer-stuff.blogspot.com/
Saturday, January 24, 2009
The System
The school system, sometimes, seems to me a bit like "The System" in The Matrix.
That's the scene in which Neo is told that The Matrix is a system, and anyone who protects it is also their enemy.
The school system is similar in some ways. Some students are so blind, to how they are being damaged by school, that they have become dependent on it, and so they do anything to protect it.
It is my goal, and the goal of FER, to free their minds, and lto expose school.
That's the scene in which Neo is told that The Matrix is a system, and anyone who protects it is also their enemy.
The school system is similar in some ways. Some students are so blind, to how they are being damaged by school, that they have become dependent on it, and so they do anything to protect it.
It is my goal, and the goal of FER, to free their minds, and lto expose school.
What is wrong with school?
Here are some of school's major, obvious flaws.
The school system makes the assumption that all students are capable of understanding the whole public school curriculum. Not all students are the same and they all have their own talents and strengths. Pretending that all students are equal robots causes excessive stress, which can result in suicides. More information on this could be found here:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jun2004/dep-j25.shtml
http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/suicide.htm
School labels different students as failures. If a student has a talent which is not recognised, then they are at risk of being labelled a failure.
School has primitive testing methods. Exams test no more than the student's memory and they measure how much time they've spent memorising facts. Exams fail to measure real understanding of concepts and they also fail to test other talents such as creativity and other intelligences.
In school, individuality is discouraged, and so is creativity or critical thinking. Students are told to obey the teacher and become mindless robots, and this harms their health in many ways, as it causes stress, which can lead to other health problems.
The biggest, most major flaw of school, is that it's compulsory. Homeschooling isn't an option for everyone, and many are left with no choice but to go to school. School will not improve, if it doesn't have to. If school was optional, it would have to improve, or it would perish, and other alternatives would spring up and become better known.
The school system makes the assumption that all students are capable of understanding the whole public school curriculum. Not all students are the same and they all have their own talents and strengths. Pretending that all students are equal robots causes excessive stress, which can result in suicides. More information on this could be found here:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jun2004/dep-j25.shtml
http://www.bullyonline.org/stress/suicide.htm
School labels different students as failures. If a student has a talent which is not recognised, then they are at risk of being labelled a failure.
School has primitive testing methods. Exams test no more than the student's memory and they measure how much time they've spent memorising facts. Exams fail to measure real understanding of concepts and they also fail to test other talents such as creativity and other intelligences.
In school, individuality is discouraged, and so is creativity or critical thinking. Students are told to obey the teacher and become mindless robots, and this harms their health in many ways, as it causes stress, which can lead to other health problems.
The biggest, most major flaw of school, is that it's compulsory. Homeschooling isn't an option for everyone, and many are left with no choice but to go to school. School will not improve, if it doesn't have to. If school was optional, it would have to improve, or it would perish, and other alternatives would spring up and become better known.
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