Michael Hogan's Socialist Education System

[Prateek_Sanjay]

Here’s an idea that seems interesting at first, before you feel something is wrong with it.

http://www.radiohogan.com/index.php?p=articles&id=146

Bourgeois education is nothing more then a fascist behavior modification and control program that destroys innate confidence. Children are punished by teachers and administrators. Some call it torture.

This could not happen in a Socialist system of education where children would manage their school by hiring and firing teachers. All management decisions would be in the hands of children such as whether or not to require attendance at class and whether or not to have tests.

Wait, why were these children attending schools in the first place?

If children were already perfect and competent people fit for “management decisions” and deciding what they should or should not learn, why did they ever have to go to school? If children were already ideal people, then their behaviour and thinking required no modification, and then they should not be attending 12 years of school in the first place.

Surely, schooling is redundant if the purpose was to produce the same end result as what was first put in there?

And why should children already be deciding matters of education, before they even know why they were being educated in the first place? Maybe that last thing should be clarified to them with…education?

Well, I for one welcome a world managed by children: