Three Reasons, Three Paragraphs

            No matter what one tries to do within their life, there is ultimately a goal to each system within it. For example in education it is said to be a method to help one become productive in society. Yet there in lies the error within our system of education, the goal which we are taught it is for, which gives no room for the identity of the students who make up its existence as a matter of fact. When a child first start school as elementary students, they learn to read and write so we can communicate, in junior high we develop more subjects to learn in order to understand more of the world, and by the time we are freshmen’s in high school, the student is programmed and conditioned to follow the leads of others to become productive in society.

If the teacher only sees the students as little tools that need to be regulated within the next step of the system then each students identity will not be nurtured and just used for someone else’s gain, such as the teachers paycheck.

If the student doesn’t realize that there is something more to their education than they will not question how they obtain it. An adolescent student is only aware that he needs to learn these things to be productive in society. So as long as the society or everyone else thinks that the method of teaching is ok, then they do not question, because they are already being productive, by not questioning so. When a student is looked at as a tool it means that they are just like the other tools in the tool box within the perception of the teacher.

         The educational system does not stimulate a student’s urge to become an individual, but rather groups the child within a cluster of other people, resulting in the student’s belief of dependency within the group. If everyone is supposed to act the same, so that they can all be productive, then who else should they want to be like then those who are succeeding in the task? Imagine a box full of wrenches, and though they are all different sizes, they are all still the same metal used for the same purpose. They are all used to turn a nut. And every one of them is needed in society, but only when the mechanic needs them. Only are they used, when the mechanic sees it is fit. So if students are the wrenches, the tools, and society the thing being fixed and mended, that leaves the mechanic as none other than whoever the students let them be.