For many, school is an experience of such toxicity and destructiveness that it is merely a thing to spend the rest of their lives recovering from. It serves as aversion therapy or a system of encapsulated samples introduced to stimulate antibodies against creativity or knowledge. The antibodies cover koans in commentary, exclude the wrong-note realities of life and seal the spirit against brilliance. Teachers who present the promise of a full-blast-on-all-cylinders nerve array prove as disappointing as ornamental berries.
