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Entry: Taking Back Our Children Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/taking_back_our_children#4794 Post contents: I think Adriana illustrates quite well the purpose and problem with education systems in most of the world in general, whether public or Catholic. "So the(y) put the boys in with the girls, and nuns were instructed to tame the boys to the point that they coul(d) do what they were told by a person of authority, and thus be able to hold down a job." Indeed. Make the boys docile like girls so they will do as they are told. All this so they can get jobs within the system (whether the system is more capitalistic or more social democratic or for that matter more fascist) and spend the rest of their lives doing what they are told by their bosses. Education for the masses of men has nothing to do with learning to think for yourself (that's discouraged) or with an appreciation of the higher things of life. It's simply to make men a well oiled part of the machine of modernity. And unruliness is not so much a characteristic of Irish men as of men in general. In the old days, this was beaten out of boys by the nun's ruler. This was virtually never used on girls, no matter how bratty. But technology has advanced - the school marms now have ritalin, the feminist cure for little boys. Sent at: 2008 09 06