I have some thoughts I was thinking earlier, so I thought I would share some of these thoughts with you. I have been thinking about how learning really works. In dialogue, there is the concept first of the Student, and then of the teacher. Generally, Western Education is based upon presumptions of what the Government wants each students to learn, at least in the USA and several other nations. What they in the national governments want us to learn is given to learn what is neccessary to make, in each of our countries' national governments, each of us into loyal and productive workers for them! What they want are loyal and productive workers to make them some money. And people believe that money will be put to good uses. And in the places known as the workplaces, we never are expected to question things. Again, these are the skills they want: Ability to follow instructions, abilities to learn and acquire neccessary instructions and information and relevant news, and to follow the narrative of the boss to understand how to present your business that employs you into a narrative that follows the narrative of the employer entity. These are the results of the "Teacher-Student Dialogue." They want you to adapt to what they want you to do! In the teacher-student dialogue, at least among educators in the older education systems in the United States, the USA government or the school you go to generally is your teacher, and pays the people giving your lessons called the teachers in mandatory public or private education, mandatory by law! They give you the same education system in the private schools as they do in the public schools, with some minor tweaks, and they produce usually most of the same results. You get people going to school and getting educated inside the same system looking for the same narrow skills used inside the education system. The young people, when getting educated, only look for the same set of skills: Ability to follow instructions, abilities to learn and acquire neccessary instructions and information and relevant news, and to follow the narrative of the boss to understand how to present your business that employs you into a narrative that follows the narrative of the employer entity. They look for skills in this mindset, in this narrow normalist manner! The education system always wants us to look for obedience, never creativity. These are some things that I think make people a little less than creative. They always look to fear being ridiculed or criticized, because it is too hard for them to bear any of it, probably based on terrible past bad experiences. They try to not be anxious, so they avoid the criticism that gives them worry and anxiety, based on past experiences! Creativity needs to be influential, as well as creative ideas and development these ideas. I really like the state system they have in Finland. The confusions that are present inside American education seem to be absent. Especially what are called "Reading Tests" or "Literacy Tests" or "Spelling Tests" for school children. The Finnish Education System also emphasizes the subject matter and the skills, not proficiency levels in "Trained Memorization." They also focus on schools as a governmental social welfare institution and help for the needy. This is what schools are supposed to be! Not a training ground for academic dialectics and classical philosophy memorization! This is about skills and ability, and the health and well-being for The Future Of Today's Young People! That is what is good about Finland's education, that is why they are the best ALL-Public, Compulsory Education System. Another thing I noticed about schools. They all have a power-dynamic in the United States School Systems. The Schools, often an educational and social institution, are a source of power as well. Same for a number of the schools in the United Kingdom. The schools are supposed to be a governmental welfare institution, but they often act as either "Private Members' Clubs" or act as "An Educational Institution Acting basically as a Public Relations and Propaganda Front Doubling as a government Jobs and Networking Center that Doubles as Government Daycare for People Younger Than 18." People look to the schools with the ambitions for the Jobs and for the Networking, and the better the school, the more improvement your life gets, at least in the USA, and at least also in the UK, from what I have read. It is such a political aspect of American life here in the USA! And a lot of the Independent and Private-sector Tuition-costing schools often do act as a "Private Members Club" or a "Fraternal Secret Society" or a "Social Member's Club." They look to those schools the most in the USA for the Job Prospects, and for the Networking! And they do not see it as a government services public agency that you can get aid or help for yourself through the public services that are advantageous to you and provided to you. In fact, many of these services, like the lunches at the Mandatory Governmental Schools in the USA where you go if you cannot afford Tuition-Costing Independent School Education systems, for instance, do cost money inside the schools! Some USA states do not even have Free School Lunches! Could you imagine anything else costing money, and being treated as a government service? Ridiculous! It's food! Everyone needs it! Finland's attitude is the exact right way to do it in education, and if leadership there is bad, then leadership elsewhere is way worse. The Prussian system went all across much of our world, to all of the English-Speaking former USA schools, and was exported to the English Education System and some of the Commonwealth of Nations Countries' education systems and for the American and formerly American English-Speaking education systems. This is common everywhere except in some of the Independent Schools in England and Some of them in the USA. Now, demagogaury and far-right-wing politics is the most common political orientation in GENERATION Z and GENERATION ALPHA inside these young people in both the USA and UK, likely to be especially among children of parents born overseas. People are also sympathizing with the historical narratives of the Soviet Union and the Present-Day Communist Chinese Party. The young also are looking to those poor sources of information, as they are usually coming at things from an Autocratic and idealistic pro-Dictator pro-Authoritarian pro-Totalitarian pro-Military pro-Statism and pro-Socialism and pro-Communism ideologies. These ideologies are usually authoritarian and stamp out all the other ideologies and think they are right about everything when they never are totally correct about every single thing! Worker's Parties and Marxist and MarxistCommunist parties are not totally correct about every single thing, even though they all are taught and just assume they always are right about every single thing, and antagonize dissent in encouragement of "Unity" in favor of "Wiping out opposition and wiping out dissent" to what they percieve as being fully correct. And many of them lack so much nuance with how truth and the Government really work. It is forgivable only to a point, but so many people are just doing the totally unacceptable and totally unforgivable, about certain principles of Democracy, that people have to disagree in a democratic process. And that some of that disagreements must be represented in a Representative Democratic Government. It is just as Gavin Newsom says. "Democracy IS at stake!" In my personal opinion, if I were someone else who started voting again in the USA, I personally think anyone and everyone should vote for good members of the Working Families Party, and for the Democratic Party members who oppose Zionism and the Genocide in Palestine and in Gaza, or otherwise should vote Green Party United States no matter what or for the Good People who try to be principled Left or principled Left Liberals, no matter what! And in…
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How the education in American and UK mandatory education systems really work.
Published Sep 18, 2025
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