Three Wrong Lessons

The result of our intermingled modern educational and class systems is too often that the modern citizen feels, as G.K. Chesterton put it:

 "I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all."

Alvin Toffler put it this way: 

"Built on the factory model, mass education taught basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, a bit of history and other subjects. This was the 'overt curriculum.' But beneath it lay an invisible or 'covert curriculum' that was far more basic. It consisted--and still does in most industrial nations--of three courses: one in punctuality, one in obedience, and one in rote, repetitive work. Factory labor demanded workers who show...up on time...take orders from a management hierarchy without questioning...[a]nd perform...brutally repetitious operations." 

This societal focus naturally influences our citizenry.

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