Why don’t Students like school
I’m not sure I could say it much better myself. The whole article is worth a read 
I shouldn’t be too harsh on Willingham. He’s not the only one avoiding this particular elephant in the room. Everyone who has ever been to school knows that school is prison, but almost nobody says it. It’s not polite to say it. We all tiptoe around this truth, that school is prison, because telling the truth makes us all seem so mean. How could all these nice people be sending their children to prison for a good share of the first 18 years of their lives? How could our democratic government, which is founded on principles of freedom and self-determination, make laws requiring children and adolescents to spend a good portion of their days in prison? It’s unthinkable, and so we try hard to avoid thinking it. Or, if we think it, we at least don’t say it. – Peter Gray
HT: Carlotta
Thank you. I went and read the whole article. It was excellent. I am tempted to send it to an education researcher whose proposal I just read but it might get misinterpreted
That prison metaphor could even be extended to the kinds of ritual humiliation and crazy hierarchies that the prisoners create among themselves. (Like the incidents Becky blogged about the other day in Alberta.)
Comment by JoVE — September 8, 2009 @ 2:51 pm