Educational cynicism July 30, 2010
Posted by mareserinitatis in education.Tags: education, graduation, valedictorian
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I just read a fantastic graduation speech. Check it out here.
I am now accomplishing that goal. I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. However, in retrospect, I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. Yet, here I stand, and I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave.
I wish I’d had that sort of insight into the system when I graduated. Bonus points for quoting both Gatto and Mencken.
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