What schools will not do for us

- School teachers teach students

- Schools educate the “public” to be students

- Schools even “produce” teachers, that will teach students

But where do we learn how to make a school?  Do they actually teach this anywhere?

What about medical schools, they produce physicians, nurses, biologists, technicians, but nowhere do they ever teach how to make a hospital.  Or even how to organize and create an institution that addresses the health needs of the population.  So would this make it safe to assume that those who set those institutions up did not learn how to do it in any school?  They sure had the authority to do so, and so they did what they wanted to do.

So do we learn at school how to built a house?  No, we learn the many little things needed to built a house but nowhere will you find education on how to address the housing needs of a community.  But there have been institutions that are an authority in such matters, as the housing needs of the community.  Where did they learn this trick?

We can keep asking dumb questions like this and see if this gets us anywhere.

We need to eat.  We can learn how to grow plants, how to cook, how to drive a truck full of potatoes, how to connect plumbing for an irrigation system, or how to cure animal diseases.  Where would one find a class and textbook on how a community will organize itself in order to meet its nutritional needs?  

We can learn how to drive, bikes, cars, trucks, planes, boats, horses, but how do we organize a transportation system that covers the needs of our community?

The list will go on and on, but the truth is that schooling is oriented at the individual level so the individual could only function as a cog in a machine run by those who did not need to go to a special school in order to become bosses.  “Why can’t I learn how to be the boss?”, the silly student asks.  Because the boss doesn’t want you to learn how to become your own boss and dethrone him (most likely, only about 2-3% of women ever get the chance to boss men around).

So that is what the school does and what education is.  A mechanism to keep the collective needs unmet, develop inequality among the students, set them up to compete, and maintain the hierarchy within a large society and within the borders of the state, which usually regulates and runs all schools.

But here, at the institute of social physics, we aim to go beyond this individual schooling.  We strive to expose the deficiencies of teaching physics to the individual (pointless unless you are a boss in need to hire physicists) and emphasize the need to teach physics to the community.  Once a community gets a good grasp of physics they can solve their own problems and thus the abolition of all bosses will be inevitable.