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The School Survival Guide, Section 1 Chapter 3: Education is Oppression

 

Question 15 Answer: False

When the hunter-gatherers taught their children to hunt and gather, that was not education. When the orphans of the hunter-gatherers were forced into military-style schools where they had their languages and cultures beaten out of them, and worse, that was education. Education is about control, and control is achieved at first through physical violence, and later through a mandatory schooling process which is designed to mentally cripple.