I personally look at schools no diferently then i do the nazi consentration camps, same evil.
The things we are tought in school are the things the government deems proper, thereby efectively removing the right to a free will, i cant even start counting the essays i got flunk grades on, either because my teacher had a personal gripe with me, that he or she could not handle in a profecional manner, or because they where "total wrong, and misinformed" because it diddent take the "proper" point of view on political issues.
For every good school and or teacher, there are a thousand bad ones, and a government dictating what is right or wrong to say, do or write.
We <b>are</b> beeing censored i school, try writing a history essay on the assasination of JFK, and write it in favor of the "second shooter on the grassy knoll", u <b>will</b> get flunked, because the government has said it was Oswald who shot him alone, its in the historry book, even if the chance of it are 1 to 10000000.
U are not intiteled to say "no, i dont belive thats right, the facts in that book must be wrong" and write it thereafter.
Where are the basic human rights of free will in that?
All i have learned in school was
1) i am nothing
2) the athority is allways right
3) i am not allowed to disagree
The perfect setup for a mindrape, if i dont belive i have rights, i wont stand up for any, plain and simple.
Now who would benifit from this?
Lets look short termed first, the school and teachers themselves.
A student who does not know his or her rights, or just doesent dare stand up for them, wont:
1) talk back to a teacher
2) deny punishment such as detention (witch is classed as freedom denial, like jail is, and is not legal)
3) speak against policies or rules that he or she is forced to abide, such as discriminating dress codes, or the removal of right to practice a relegion
4) refuse to work on an asignment that discriminates his or her personal beliefs, or morals (disecting frogs and seartain essay topics comes to mind)
5) refuse to pay for seartain "service deals" that he or she thinks are a waste of money
Ok, so who outside the school wouldent mind the people not knowing their rights.
Work.
So what can an employer do, if the people working for him/her doesent know their rights, or just dont dare stand up for them:
1) working for less than they are intiteled to
2) disregard safety gear, to save a few bucks
3) how about forcing people to work overtime without paying them for it
4) women just get pregnit at some point, and cant work, lets not pay them the same as we do men
5) or why bother installing ventilation, so what if people get sick, we just cut it from their pay
6) so u dont want to have sex with me, eh?, well kiss youre paycheck goodbye
7) whoa there bubba, u have the wrong skin colour, no way am i paying u the same as real people
Or what about the government:
If no one is fighting for their rights, what is going to stop them from doing anything they damn well please.
(i wont even bother writing up points here, the posibilities are astronomical)
Theres too much politics involved with all this, and too much money, everything currupts given the right sercomstances, school has all of them, in my not so humble opinion.
Now on the topic of respecting athority, namely police...let me get this straight, when my freind got the living crap beaten out of him this monday by the police, for the horrible crime of beeing part of a peacefull demonstation against racism.
He should have showed them nothing but respect?
The fact that someone is wearing a uniform doesent change anything, we are all humans, for better or worse.
So what can we say about cops?
Well here we have a line of work the requres that u are werry dumb, u have to take an IQ test to become a cop, and u are dismissed if u score too well, the government needs dumb drones that just carry out orders.
Lets look at the job itself.
Here is a line of work that offers u power to do a great deal of things twords people, it offers that sence of beeing better than anyone else, guns and fast cars, and the right to use them.
If u ask me, the only job that provides more opertunity for coruption, and atracts more people prone to corrupt than police officer, is politician, its wrotten to the core.
Now onto the communism topic that has sprung up:
Stalin was not a communist, he was a dictator, he promised the russian people communism, but gave them poperty, genocide and war, in exactly the same way Hitler promised the german people economic stabillity, safety and freedom, but gave them genocide, mind rape and war.
There has never been a true communistic state or country, and there wont be anytime soon. Communism is one of the purest and most decent philosofies i have ever encountered, and people are such selfish, power hungry s<b></b>hit, it wont work.