[Stu]

All schools should have classes on popular culture and politics past and present, but it will never happen. Why would government want to arm people with the knowledge to realise how messed up the world they are running is?

Your only hope in this world is to start reading and to read a lot. Kids who don't start reading are essentialy missing out on countless worlds of thought and alternative ideaology that would never have occured to them.

Wikipedia helps, but meh. Schools job is to destroy creative thought and to bracket and label everything into logical, easy to digest sections to prepare you for the mundanity of the working world and conforming to a job you don't like. I know we all have to make paper but some people are basically trapped in an institution for their entire lives. Those sorts who then don't ever think just use the television as a source of entertainment to balance out the tedium of there lives, more mind numbing, and the cycle goes on and on and on.

The bell defines school really. The bell rings and no matter what you get up, walk to a certain spot, and wait for the next bell.