Reply #206: I suspect not. [View All]

[bean fidhleir]

As to subjects not being appropriate, ex-middle-school-teacher Grace Llewellyn made what I think is a very good point:

All the time you are in school, you learn through experience how to live in a dictatorship. In school you shut your notebook when the bell rings. You do not speak unless granted permission. You are guilty until proven innocent, and who will prove you innocent? You
are told what to do, think, and say for six hours each day. If your teacher says sit up and pay attention, you had better stiffen your spine and try to get Bobby or Sally or the idea of Spring or the play you\'re writing off of your mind. The most constant and thorough thing students in school experience---and learn---is the antithesis of democracy.

Every teacher and class teaches obedience to authority, regardless of the subject. So why shouldn't teachers *consciously* teach the opposite?