See? I wrote a title today, one that--I hope-- sums up the mood of this passage.
HAHAHA!!! What a load of bollocks!! The sound there is distinctly T&T's version of education. You know what I mean; the product of a BY-product of the "education" (read: taming) of the slaves by the white guys, that is mercilessly squezzed and molded by such ignorance as to render it even less recognisable than education than "teaching" religion to those damned slaves. Parents send their children to such "institutions" in the morning and make sure that they come back out with and "education", that is, they must be able to spell, understand rudimentary math, learn priceless poetry off by heart and all sorts of other rubbish that I cannot bear to think of. Do the children come back with a sense of pride in themselves? A great appreciation of the pervasiveness of maths? A tingling from just discovering shakespeare? NO! I have seen Macbeth MURDERED by a droning, emotionlesss voice, ignorant of puntuation and metre. But was this the student's fault? Absolutely not! It was a product of years of getting full marks for just learning which work went in frontof which, and not one bit of macbeth's and Shakespeare's history was ever addressed in class. How could you expect him to appreciate anything?
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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