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State schools (as in taxpayer funded) in Australia often turn out unemployable, entitled, narcissistic brats who know all their rights and dodge all responsibility. Australia is not quite as elitist as the UK, but it still has it's social structures, just not as rigid. It is a great advantage to go to one of the elite schools here, but not like in the UK.For posterity: "Public school" in the UK means "private school" in Aus. Britannica: "Public school, also called independent school, in the United Kingdom, one of a relatively small group of institutions educating secondary-level students for a fee and independent of the state system as regards both endowment and administration." -- Likewise, "public school" in Aus originally refers to the 'Greater Public Schools' which were independent or church-run. It's worth noting that this was during penal colony times when there was practically no education here, not until the Public Schools Act of 1866. Also noting the motivation, that "The first schools of the British settlers were concerned to foster the moral well-being of the 'rising generation' of native-born convict children." Education | The Dictionary of Sydney. Effectively inmate control on this God-forsaken prison island.
I went to both 'public' and 'private' schools. I can attest that it's true that both are "indistinguishable from Nazism". I've reflected for decades on this and my school mates have similar feelings of trauma, of Stockholm syndrome, and having 'survived' the system. While there are pleasurable aspects, neither places are pleasurable and this is down to the teachers.
Generally, a student's right to question a teacher (in honest interest) is denied in both, until perhaps senior year. Disruptions are penalised, be it lateness, class orderliness or uniformity, compliance to the regiment set by the teacher. Effectively it's dictation and indoctrination. Both systems dehumanise the student, reducing a person to a number and or a last name, like at Auschwitz. Whereas God addresses people by first name, not respecting ancestry or tradition. And with that comes special treatment for those born with the 'right' last name, a relative of a teacher or famous alumnus. Head teachers, deputy principals, and principals are effectively off limits in all regards, demigods or gods seen only at assemblies or when handing out punishment. They are beyond reproach and their decisions are final. Autocrats. -- There are ofc exceptional teachers but on the whole they are altogether complicit, united. Master and slave dialectic.-- The Scandinavian system is the very opposite, very flat, encourages 2-way communication, and disruptions or interruptions (positive ones) are embraced. The idea is that the collective community work together to solve the problem that one student has presented. Practice of true democratic ideals, that one person has freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial.
But as to "fascism", private school may be that, but it's more so the embodiment of "elitism" that the minority group in power is above others, financially, ideologically, culturally, socially, even above the church and God in a sense. That there's "It's one rule for us and another for them. If you've got money and power you can do what you want."
They exist in an aristocratic apartheid bubble, segregated from the rest of society. A narcissistic self-serving bubble, which doesn't necessarily respect family, ancestry, genetics, or clan. It's completely self-serving and whatever they want it to be. The ultimate clique. Inner court. Debutants. Which is actually feudalism: King, nobles, knights, peasants. This is increasingly evident in the way large companies, blue chips, tech giants, construction giants, etc, operate. Just like the ancient world of Babylon and Egypt.
Since human nature does not change, I'm not surprised by any of this. The rich will always take advantage of the poor and the poor will resent and hate the rich. Hence the addiction to gambling.
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