Education, Edjucation, Schmedjucaishun....

I remember adults talking about education when I was young,
they made it seem as if children were the unworthy poor-
worth keeping but purely as an example of how not to be.
They were always worth discouraging from all dependency.
Education was spoken of as the poor relation of work.
'Those who keep themselves through the skill in their hands
do-those who have no skills, teach'.
In this scheme those who were too young to work,
or teach, still had to kept so were sent to be taught instead.
Not that their parents wanted them to share anything
they learned in the home, that was all for somewhere else.
Because education was widely thought of as child-minding.
Without children parents could temporarily pretend to be
the autonmous adults they were when they were single,
and use the self-justifying criticisms of working breeders,
to pretend they earned all their money.
They believed they heroically worked for the good of everyone else,
and agree with each other they were victims of their dependnents,
and finally and most likely, believe they were more autonomous
than they actually were, by doing down all teachers,
all children and all education-particularly their own......