The American school system is designed to create happy worker bees.
School doesn’t prepare students for life, writes Rich Stowell on Medium. It prepares them to comply.
His creative, bright extroverted son is considered a mediocre student “because 1) he gets bored quickly in class; 2) he speaks his mind when he should politely lie; and 3) he needs more attention than his more introverted classmates,” writes Stowell.
His introverted son, too shy to speak up in class, is considered “a model student.”
The adult world doesn’t punish people who are eager to ask questions and share ideas, writes Stowell. It doesn’t reward silence.
In what job, for instance, would 20 to 30 workers have to sit in neat rows listening to their foreman or manager drone on for 40 minutes at a time before getting to work?
His extroverted son complains the teacher won’t call on him. Stowell asks, “What boss would continually ignore the worker who had solutions in favor of the ones she knew didn’t have them?”