In so many ways the collapse of public health and other social problems stems from a lack of respect for…

In so many ways the collapse of public health and other social problems stems from a lack of respect for teachers and education. For two fundamentally important reasons. Teachers mediate our relationship with knowledge, and also to each other. At the same time. /1 https://t.co/5I1b3gnkxS

All of our social problems right now can be traced back to social activity decoupled from the knowledge humans have accumulated over generations. It’s pure bullying schoolyard. That’s all populism is. The essence of teaching is not to impart knowledge. Knowledge is social. /2 https://t.co/2NiTPGfTd3

The essence of teaching is to take rooms full of kids who without guidance will just act socially, all day and every day. And to guide them into a world where those social relationships will have to be modified by knowledge. /3 https://t.co/V2KAsk9TiY

Where the social relationships they use in the playground have to be modified and transformed, towards a completely different end. Towards learning, truths that cross generations. School is where the accumulated lessons of humanity are supposed to start shaping our behaviour. /4 https://t.co/wRNj21Fqup

Not only do we have to learn to deal with a much bigger range of people at school than we do at home, but all of that relationship is also shifted into another gear. Towards knowledge. Good education teaches people how to escape the oppressive sociality of the playground. /5 https://t.co/It05r5rwAG

And right now, at the same time you can see societies starting to collapse, it’s no coincidence at all that education failed first. Decades of treating education only as childcare for workers. As a material one-person shooter game for sociopaths with guns, in the US. /6 https://t.co/5prTlyCLKE

And now, the crowning triumph, of mass infection of an entire generation of children, over and over and over. The most despicable thing we have done in my lifetime. I have white hot contempt for the experts who played human shields for the politicians who did it. /end https://t.co/ZqkhUIcNzU