That's odd: during my K-12 I had believed (encouraged by MAD magazine?) that school was where we learned how to find meaning in life, despite spending large chunks of it in granfalloons paying (just enough) attention to things other people have deemed Important?
Exactly: the take I got from MAD is that the lesson Education teaches is not what it claims to be teaching, but how to survive, if not thrive, between the lines of a bureaucracy. If you manage to live despite the machine in K-12 (when the bureaucracy is at its strongest), then it's all downhill later in life, when you could actually spend time in a karass or two, and at least get more and more control over what you're doing, when, and with whom.
