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>be me
>4th grade
>bring 3 sharpners to school
>friend tells me thats a lot of sharpners
>bring 3 more sharpners the next day >friend gives me his sharpner to grow my collection
>start collecting more and more sharpners
>go to stationary every week to by more sharpners
>collect about 70 sharpners by the end of the month
>start bringing a tiny bag to carry thoes sharpner
>english teacher asks for a sharpner
>offer her the bag thinking she'd be impressed
>sees all my sharpners and writes a note to my parents
>only allowed to bring 1 sharpner
>idea.jpg
>make a huge sharpner out of cardboard
>dad helps me to color it with red and silver spray paint
>display it on my table during the english period
>get sent to the office

fun days

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 100 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

School often represses creativity in favor of compliance.

Doesn't have to have a reason. The teacher finds something strange, you are punished. Think of blonde hair in Japanese schools.

In my parents' times, going to school in jeans was forbidden (in center Europe).

[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 58 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Yup. Because schools primarily serve to create workers. Actual education is merely permitted when it does not interfere with the main aim of creating workers

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

It's an industrial era system in the 21st century. What could possibly go ~~wrong~~ right?

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I don't think teachers are thinking about creating workers. They just apply the way they were raised.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 26 points 8 months ago

But applying without thinking doesn't mean that it doesn't serve a purpose, it just means they don't know what the purpose is

[–] oce@jlai.lu 4 points 8 months ago

Not on Lemmy, here everything bad is because of capitalism, humans would be perfect if they hadn't bitten into the capitalism apple.