Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?) - Seth Godin

11. To efficiently run a school, amplify fear (and destroy
passion)
School’s industrial, scaled-up, measurable structure means that fear must be used
to keep the masses in line. There’s no other way to get hundreds or thousands of
kids to comply, to process that many bodies, en masse, without simultaneous
coordination.
And the flip side of this fear and conformity must be that passion will be destroyed.
There’s no room for someone who wants to go faster, or someone who
wants to do something else, or someone who cares about a particular issue. Move
on. Write it in your notes; there will be a test later. A multiple-choice test.
Do we need more fear?
Less passion?
12. Is it possible to teach attitudes?
The notion that an organization could teach anything at all is a relatively new
one.
Traditionally, society assumed that artists, singers, artisans, writers, scientists,
and alchemists would find their calling, then find a mentor, and then learn their
craft. It was absurd to think that you’d take people off the street and teach them