socialjusticevegan:

queeranarchism:

dragon-in-a-fez:

dragon-in-a-fez:

adults are always talking about how “kids will do anything to get out of school” and okay, first of all that’s not true, but I think we really need to ask why that idea holds so much sway.

children’s brains are hard-wired to take in new information and acquire new skills. consider, for a moment, just how thoroughly our society had to fuck up the concept of education for it to be a normal thing to assume kids are universally desperate to avoid learning.

couple things here:

• multiple things can actually be bad at the same time
• I’m 32

“Just wait until you’re an adult, then you’ll really suffer!”

I’d… like… kids AND adults to both not suffer?

Capitalism screws us all over and I’d like kids and adults to have a better life than what they’re getting now?

I mean, the school system was basically designed to train you to be okay with working 40 to 60 hours a week just to struggle to support yourself, so there’s that.