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Before we can unlearn anything, we need to know why we sometimes think the way we do. We need to be able to see through the system that shaped us. School is a good place to start.

The first thing you need to know about school is this:

SCHOOL WAS NOT DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND.

They designed it for them. You might be wondering who ‘they' actually are. Well, ‘they', in the developed world at least, are the governments and the industrialists and business leaders who own and control the factors of production. School as we know it was designed to create competent, compliant workers who could fit into the rapidly industrialising world.

Before the industrial revolution there was a very high probability that people would simply do what their parents did, especially if it involved agriculture or a craft. They would follow family tradition, the required skills usually handed down from parents or close relatives. Or they'd work in the family business, most often eking out a living with the primary focus of providing for the food, clothing and lodging to sustain their family. There wasn't much excess for the working classes, but there was a fair amount of freedom.