And (let me guess) school was made to "help" people? Don't make me laugh.

Public free education was instituted here to INDEED help people. This is the entire premise of the Education Act 1870 here.

When talking about sheer unadulterated control, that subject you so casually glanced over is the 1# culprit out of the things you bothered to mention in that post!

Wow, in a thread FULL of jerkoff humour, I'm amazed that people have responded seriously to my CLEAR RAMBLING JOKITUDE!!! And now you're attacking education as being more of a control mechanism than religion? Even education that promotes free thought, problem solving and, above all, independent learning? Surely you jest sir, surely you jest!

Does it really matter what belief system the school imposes on you about the origins of history when all they care about is weaning out the top 5% and training them to spend the rest of their lives taking advantage of the 95% that are put in that lifelong establishment for the sole purpose of being convinced that you are worthless for not being smart and doomed to serve the remainder of your life out at some dead-end job that's probably at a factory making that precious shampoo product that is ever so improved by so called "new science".

WHAT A CYNICAL VIEW OF SCHOOL! G-D BLESS AMERICA ​!!! School doesn't work like that here bucko. The kids in the top 5% are ALREADY weaned out and go to PUBLIC SCHOOLS here (like private schools, but a lot more prestigious). Most others go to comprehensive schools (state schools), like the school in which I work. The entire curriculum, thanks to the United Nations' 'Rights of the Child', is child driven, being child centred and backed by our 'Every Child Matters' agenda. Anyone telling children they're worthless here is pretty rapidly reprimanded.

Thank goodness I'm employed over here! Your system sounds TERRIBLE!!!

And yes, it does matter when certain options (such as creationism) are taught to students as fact. That's pretty much pure manipulation which, as I said earlier, goes against everything that education here stands for. Independent thinking bucko! It's high on the agenda here.

Oh, we don't teach creationism by the way, except in R.E. classes alongside other belief systems. Certainly not in science.

And Alec: IT IS NO JOKE MY POST IS WHAT I SINCERELY BELIEVE!!!!! ESPECIALLY THE BITS ABOUT SCIENCE!!!

weaning out the top 5% and training them to spend the rest of their lives taking advantage of the 95% that are put in that lifelong establishment for the sole purpose of being convinced that you are worthless for not being smart and doomed to serve the remainder of your life out at some dead-end job that's probably at a factory making that precious shampoo product that is ever so improved by so called "new science".

Oh, also...BITTER!!!

you aren't "here" your in goddamn americka so start posting like it you commie scum

I am in the GLORIOUS BRITISH EMPIRE you traitorous Mel Gibson!!!

That is exactly the way these things ought to be taught (A RHYME!!!)

Independent thinking is a skill that sets young people up for life, and is highly sought after by many employers. The problem comes when certain individuals - and these individuals exist here too, but have a LOT less influence than in the US - want to force Science teachers to teach things like Creationism in science classes. Elsewise I find RS itself to be a fascinating subject.

SCIENCE CLASSES ARE FOR LEARNING ABOUT WHY WE SWEAT AND ABOUT MASS AND STUFF!!!!!