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Critique of American Education System
学校训练人们 有格调地保持无知。
它们为你提供 成为一个实用型无知者所需的工具。
美国的学校并没有让你做好准备 去应对像逻辑这样的事情。
它们没有给你 用以衡量的标准
在任何媒介或形式中 去评判好与坏。
它们让你做好准备，成为一个好用的 受害者，
去服务于一个需要人力的 军工复合体。
只要你刚好够聪明 去做好一份工作，
又刚好够愚蠢，能全盘接受他们 喂给你的东西，你就会过得很好。
但如果你超越了那个界限，
你就会产生这些严重的怀疑， 让你胃部不适、
头痛，甚至让你想 走出去做点别的事情。
所以我认为，学校在机械地、 并且非常有针对性地试图扼杀
在即将成长起来的孩子身上 任何创造性思维的苗头。
那么，对于赞同你观点的家长来说， 有什么替代选择呢？
好吧，请记住，学校并不是 孩子接受教育的唯一场所。
如果你意识到学校正在造成伤害， 而我确实这么认为，
我相信学校给孩子们 带来了很大的伤害，
那么你就应该在家里尽你所能 给他们一些东西，
来抵消他们在学校里 所遭受的影响。
你是说鼓励创造力吗？
鼓励他们阅读学校所给书目 之外的书籍。
作为家长，让他们感受到 你希望他们变得聪明，
而不仅仅是获得成功，
也不仅仅是做一个讨人喜欢的小孩，
而是希望他们能够发展 自己的思维器官。
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Original transcript (English)
Schools train people to be ignorant with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic. They don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format.
And they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military-industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you're just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you're going to be all right. But if you go beyond that,
you're going to have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches, make you want to go out and do something else. So I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming up. So what's the alternative for the parent who would agree with you?
Well, remember that the school isn't the only place that a child gets educated. If you realize that the schools are doing damage, and I believe this, I believe that schools do a lot of damage to kids, then you should do what you can at home to help give them something to counteract what's happening to them at school.
You mean encourage creativity? Encourage them to read things other than what the school gives them. Let them feel that you as a parent want them to be smart, not just to be successful, not just to be a nice little person,
that you want them to develop their thinking apparatus.
