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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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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

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

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

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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

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

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