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RE: Korean Society Is In The Classroom: The School As A Factory
I do what I can but at the end of the day, I teach English to middle school students. I'm not fluent in Korean, nor is it truly my place to make change in their system. I hope I didn't come across as justifiying the system as "culture". It's not, and culture is no excuse. In Korea's case, the basis for the system is the military-enforced capitalism by decades of dictatorships. And there's lots of people who hate this and want to change it but the structure is quite entrenched.
As for parents beating their children, that's quite common here as well. Hell, teachers still smack kids with sticks.
How fucked up this world is.. what else can I say? It's sad to see kids trained to not use their brain from their early childhood. Brains filled and emptied and filled again with notions like vases in a race.. for what? To become more efficient slaves? Wherever
you turn your head in this world, you find abominable control and exploitation social orders. Thanks for this article, I'll print it and make it read to my wife, who's a primary teacher, specialised in inclusion. By the way, if you want to give an eye to the contest, Calluna wrote a very particular first part of the story.
She's probably far more trained than I am and would be far more capable of challenging things than I am.
On it