Over the course of history and in different cultures, education has taken many different forms. In the thousands of years people have been going to school, no one has created the "perfect" way of teaching others. According to Yuval Noah Harari, "corporations are fictional stories created by human beings. Microsoft isn't the buildings it owns, the people it employs or the shareholders it serves--rather, it is an intricate legal fiction woven by lawmakers and lawyers. (W)e treat corporations as if they are real entities in the world like tigers or humans" (Harari 2018, 246). School, like business, is a creation of humans and can be changed to fit our needs. It is not natural law. We have come to accept the "rules'' of school i.e. sitting in desks, listening to lectures, taking notes, taking tests, and receiving grades are all part of the "rules." The word "learning" has come to be the equivalent of "school." As in the frequent student answer answer to the question: "Do you love learning?" is answered with "No, I don't like school."
Learning is natural law. Everything with a brain learns throughout their lives. Only humans go to "school."
Harari, Yuval Noah. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Spiegel & Grau, 2018.
