Mis-Education

There are plenty of reasons
why education in 'the developed world'
simply does not educate children.

The first is that the predictive systems
which drive teachers to what they do,
will raise expectations that can't be met.
Wealth leads to wealth and always will do.

The second is that Education has to be repetitious
for the information to stay pupils heads long enough
for them to pass the exams that they are told employers
think constitutes proof of fitness for work and training,
but instead the repetitions will mark pupils for life
-long after they can trace the effect of them
when employers no longer care what you learned, or when.

The third is that we have to educate ourselves
to know what education is for; to reinforce status.
By the time we have learnt this then however weird
all questions of status seem, our own status will be fixed
however much we try to re-educate ourselves
to live beyond the neediness of others.