Did you know?
Did you know word-users are the only specie that builds schools?
Did you know the other 8.7 million animal species also on Earth don’t build schools?
Not only are we the only specie that builds schools, we also do it for only one reason.
We do it for words
We build schools for words only. It’s the only reason for our school building frenzy.
We build schools for words so our children, like their parents before them, can learn how to read and write — first letters, then words, and then stories.
We build word schools where stories are told because our education system is founded entirely on words and storing words that are then used for storytelling, the telling of stored words.
We build many types schools except word schools, including advanced, army, art, boarding, charter, dance, design, film, grammar, high, history, hotel, language, law, media, poker, primary, private, public, religion, science, secondary, special, sport, virtual, wood, writing, and yodeling — as if any of these works without words.
But we still haven’t built a single word school for religious reasons known only to our governments and school boards. Because the story of words told at schools would be the death of religions.
In the wordless world
The sun, stars, atoms, energy, electricity, fire, oxygen, earth and water didn’t adopt words when they were invented 13750 years ago. Yet their intelligence is infinitely greater than that of the 9 billion word-users combined.
Begs the question of what do the wordless know that we don’t, that’s not taught at schools, doesn’t it?
In the wordless world, usually mistaken for nature, schools don’t exist for the self-evident reason that nature is void of words.
If that doesn’t make you wonder what our schools are for, I wonder what are you waiting for to wonder.
In the wordy world
In the wordy world, most word-users can’t tell a word or story that genuinely happened from a word or story that haven’t happened. The only thing that matters to most word-users is that the word or story are true.
It explains — more than anything — the phenomenal success of the one book printed a world record between 5 and 7 billion times and translated to over 3,000 languages.
Natural-born word-users
Including the 9 billion wordy animals, Earth is at the same time populated by hundreds of trillions of wordless animals. Yet, every child of every is born wordless, of the wordy and wordless animals alike.
The wordy animal’s children are the only ones that then move on to learn, after we’ve learned to walk, to talk between the ages of 1 to 5 (average) from their parents, siblings, friends, preachers, and teachers. After which they’re sent to…
Word schools
…where our children, like their parents before them, are told they must learn everything from scratch — despite the fact they’ve just made themselves from scratch. How do we make ourselves from scratch before our first day at school?
Where does that intelligence come from?
Nobody government or school board asks. Instead, they want us to believe that only the preachers and teachers that preach and teach us are exempt from having to learn everything from scratch. That’s because our governments and school boards know what the professional liars have known since the beginning of words,
Lies repeated are believed, often by the liars themselves.
- ”Strange times are when old and young are taught falsehoods in school.” – Plato
- “Of all the schools I attended, playing truant seemed to me to be the best.” – Alphonse Daudet
- “Education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination than in terms of enlightenment. Education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.” “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” – Bertrand Russel
- “Everybody is born a genius, but the process of growing up de-geniuses you.” “There is no energy crisis, food crisis or environmental crisis. There is only a crisis of ignorance.” “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” – Buckminster Fuller
- “The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.” – Marshall McLuhan
- “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here.” – James Baldwin
- “Some people, unable to go to school, are more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” – Maya Angelou
- “Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last past what you can see and turn against you. Careful the story you tell. That is the spell.” – Steven Sondheim
- “All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.” – Bob Dylan
- “When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” – Paul Simon
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