Institutional ignorance requires that administrators, instructors

and students pay attention to certain things and only certain

things, in order that the entire process be quantifiable.

Quantifiable to whom?

Them what are paying for it.

If they don't know what they are buying, doesn't it serve them

right if they get something that they don't know they want?

Yes, well, the course of true justice rarely runs smooth.


The education system itself is so full of people who can't teach

and haven't learned much themselves that those who do know a bit

and have the ability to impart their knowledge have to do the

best they can under the circumstances.

Occasionally a real teacher finds a niche where they are virtually

ignored by the PTB and is able to do the job properly.

Unfortunately, that lone voice in the wilderness might not

not be enough if the pupils spend the rest of their school day

in the presence of rote drones.


Yet, for all this whining on my part, I also lament those

children, whom for no particular reason, seem not to have

any interest in learning anything except what their favorite

pap star is wearing in their navel this week.

I blame the parents. Not because it might be really and truly

their fault, but because I am enough of an adolt to want

to find a scapegoat that can't fight back readily, too.