Education v.s. Indoctrination
I have always imagined that education means tolerance, acceptance of new ideas, and respect for the individual. But, that is not so in Western Society - even in Canada, the distinction between education and indoctrination is a big blur. There is no clear gray area where people are tolerated, accepted, and loved under the jurisdiction of the education system of Canada. At the school I went to, this was most clear through experience.
The first part is concerning the intolerance of the education system in Canada, and if it applies, most of Western Society. Here is my anecdote of a major event that changed how I view the education system as a whole, and its corruption.
It was April 16th - 33 people have died at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Shock and awe. There was utter fear and awe throughout the United States and the world as CNN and all the major American Media Moguls rushed to the scene of the tragedy. Thirty-three people have died in the worst shooting in American history - on a school. Then, as usual, the media bought up the topic of gun control, and over time, as the weeks gone by, people forget about the fact that Virginia Tech even happened. Meanwhile, at about the same time two weeks after VTech, half a thousand miles away, in Canada - me and my friend did what is considered, "a violation of school legislative law." It was on a full moon in April that me and my friend started posting up messages at the school regarding the events of Virginia Tech. I was the first to be caught by the school administration. They were the eyes of Big Brother - keeping an eye on everything I did, I was literally for a while - a prisoner within my own community - hated, feared, and controversial. So, the first time, after a severe punishment, I decided that I could take it FURTHER. So, I did. It was time for a new level of gaming against the school administration whose logic is haywire, and despite their continual efforts to make me stop posting up what MY opinion was of Virginia Tech, despite the opposition from professionals and teachers - I did it anyways, because I believed as my friend did - that there was nothing wrong with expressing what your opinion and feelings are towards the Massacre and society as whole (even if you are using profanity to make your point, you're not beating someone up and that is all that counts), and the aftershocks that eventually hit Canada hard, but seem to have forgotten (nobody in school did anything like what we did), and neither did the government decide to learn anything (except for more Gun Control, and more LAWS, more excuses to seize your property without the constitution being upheld)...
And so - me, my friend, and the school got into a terrible titanic struggle of ideologies - the school administration feared that we might become killers and murderers, and commit suicide (which we did not), and even suspended me, although they did not use the word, "suspend." Instead, they used a rather fancy, "exclusion" word to fill in the, "incorrectness" that is involved in using the former (although I found nothing wrong with it). So, instead of dealing with my message and my friend's detailed messages of peace, love, tolerance, a change to the education system, and telling the students OTHER truths other than the one's that they learn all the time in school - consequences were, allegedly the perfect next step to being, "dealt with" by the education system. Indeed - we were very concerned for our fellow schoolmates as they DO NOT question the official reports of Virginia Tech, and did nothing to ask for the SCHOOL SYSTEM TO CHANGE. I even warned the school's principal that should he not change or ask for change within the education system, another shooting will occur somewhere, anywhere, at anytime - he ignored our pleas, and instead authorized for himself the use of dictatorial powers to keep himself and his staff safe - but safe from what? From the truth? From SOMEONE ELSE's opinion of what is TRUE?
Hence - I was isolated away from my best friend, and she was literally stalked by the school officials because neither of them had a choice - but where I was isolated is not of any major importance - I was sent far away. But, before I was sent away, the police came over to my house to, "lecture" me about how I am to follow orders and do so without question - a few days later investigation detectives came over and illegally seized my computer (nowhere in the constitution is it written that just because I wrote something you don't like I have to give up my property just to prove to you that I am not insane or dangerous - it is based on common sense and reasoning). I was really pissed off afterwards - my rights are being diminished and so is my friends. Obedience - a joke, right? I never said a thing though - it is only the appearance they want, so I gave it to them - respectful, tolerable, courteous, honest. So, when I came back to the school after nearly two weeks - I had a meeting with a rather nice psychiatrist, and discussed some things with a really nice psychologist. But, while I once had so many allies within the adult world before the posting incident began - I was now stripped of any trustworthy allies except for my best friend who suffered a great amount as I did to express our opinions, and our view of what is to be done, and what could have been learned from Virginia Tech. To clarify - she stated that everyone is responsible for the fate of the 33 people who died that fateful day. My argument was simply that if society does not change, then the violence, the bloodshed, and the endless violations of human rights, fundamental rights will continue - even if it goes through the education system to do what it does - indoctrination of its own views onto others while punishing and severing anyone who dares to oppose the official doctrine of the day that is normally taught by the media, the education system, and the general world as a whole.
Hence, my story of the tragedy and hope after the Virginia Tech Massacre. My story, every detail was written very carefully on my part, and I can assure you that this story is true. In fact - my entries that I posted up at the school that I attended is still in my Xanga entries. I swear - the entries just after the VTech Massacre are truly authentic. They were written near the end of April, beginning of May.
And so - what do we learn about the lovely education system of Canada, at least based on my true story of freedom fighting and resistance from the school and being threatened, shocked, and traumatized? That the education system has no tolerance for any perspective or view that it is WRONG. It does not tolerate what is tolerable - what is simply language on paper which does not kill is taken as if it is a KILLER. The writer of the information is instead attacked, mocked, and crucified on a cross of his own heart and soul (as well as her's of course). They were told to simply obey and to subordinate their will to the principal against their very will, shouted at by the guy's, "favorite" counselor because the counselor imagined that following the law of the land is better than thinking for himself for once. Indeed - in a male-dominated society - it is the men who are treated with utmost intolerance and despise when they dare to speak out for the freedom of his fellow men and women.
Secondly - the school system of Canada - based on the story reflects a world where laws reign supreme, and all laws, regulations, protocols must be respected even if such principles do not accept, tolerate, and love the people whom it is suppose to protect and govern. Instead - the school system - as a system of learning only teaches its students what they SHOULD learn in order for them to only get a job but unable to start thinking for themselves, and being able to survive, and becoming more like humans rather than slaves to a system of slavery, obedience, and docility.
Third - the education system no longer shows any LOVE for its followers, more like their slaves. Instead of following its preaching that everyone should be tolerated no matter their race, their ideas, sex, gender, ability, thoughts - unless they do not tolerate you - the education system practises the opposite - it believes that everyone should be treated equally - EQUALLY under SLAVERY. Then, at the same time - should anyone state an opinion or idea that it does not like, it INTOLERATES them by exclusion, suspension, expulsion, isolation, stalking, watching, surveillance, illegal investigation, and any number of, "legal actions" that justifies it to bully those that dares to disobey or question its authority. This was proven in the case when the police came over. Hence - laws are no longer made to love or tolerate people - they have been made - in the case of the school to suppress and dominate everyone under its all-seeing eyes based on fear, anger, and hatred of anyone who is, "thinking for themselves."
In conclusion, the education system, since it no longer tolerates a mere difference of opinion/intellect, hatred of questioning students, and disrespect of individuality (through severe, illogical punishments when it should have been looking at its own faults), shows a system of education, specifically in Canada, and all throughout the West that its education system - especially public is eroding away, and instead of being TAUGHT the truth, even if truth is either black and white or black or white teaches students nothing but HOW to FOLLOW INSTRUCTION, not question them - a sign of great intolerance, disrespect, dictatorship, and authoritarian leadership.
Our freedom is precious, and so is our education - don't let those school administration officials corrupt it and turn into a doctrine for your mind to beLIEve in.
XINYU HU
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