I've since come to understand the reason school lasts thirteen years. It takes that long to sufficiently break a child's will. It is not easy to disconnect children's wills, to disconnect them from their own experiences of the world in preparation for the lives of painful employment they will have to endure.
Derrick JensenI think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.
Derrick JensenAs is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?
Derrick JensenStand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight.
Derrick Jensen