I didn& #39;t like school much, which left me thinking that meant I didn& #39;t like learning. But I love learning, more than anything. School isn& #39;t about learning, it& #39;s about teaching - it& #39;s strange that we universally lump the two of them together.

Teaching needs to be regimented, to a degree - where I firmly believe that learning is a chaotic process: the flow and pace radically shifting, and allowed to do so - allowed to both stumble and soar

The issue of course is that school doesn& #39;t aim to teach children to do much other than to behave and conform within traditional work structures, so fuck it

I mean gosh, I remember at UNIVERSITY I almost failed an essay because I& #39;d spent too long combining different schools of thought & threads of research to theorise. "this is fascinating but I can& #39;t give you any marks for it". Only recollection of learned facts, please https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😌" title="Erleichtertes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Erleichtertes Gesicht">

I can see this thread being shared as an attack on teachers - just to be clear (I assumed it would be?!) it absolutely isn& #39;t? This is about curriculum aims & the currently enforced structure of what schools *do*. I don& #39;t think I& #39;ve met any teachers who align with those aims.

I& #39;d just argue quite seriously that a huge amount of the good that schools - as *places* - do, is in spite of what schools as an institution aim to achieve. If you disagree with me on that then that& #39;s fine - but apparently needed to clarify.