23 June

Was listening to talkback radio yesterday, and the question was - what’s something you learned at school that you actually used in later life? And it made me think about how education has failed, that this is such a common question. Not because education doesn’t teach you useful things, but because we think that’s its job. Education only has one purpose, and it’s not really doing it. To break the hold ideas have on us, to challenge how we think. To pay attention past the point of discomfort to our current ideas. Instead we have zombie robots filled to the brim with righteous certainties - their specialities and their opinions. The more ‘useful’ we make education, the more zombie-like people become.