Schools II

The living theory institution I will be writing about will be the elementary school I used to work at. My relationship with school is obvious because like you I have spent way too much of my youth locked up learning about things I soon forgot. In addition to that I worked at an elementary school inside a special education classroom as an aid for two years. I also have a sister that is a elementary school teacher with Teach for America in Las Vegas, so I could easily direct any question I have about schools to her. This institution would be a category in itself, the only larger category I could put it in would be the State/government. As for a social rule at work in schools would be the expectation of one to go to school. How often do you come across someone (at least near our age) that just didn’t attend school; it seems that there is a pretty big social rule that you have to go to school. The division of labor is schools is very apparent, you have the secretaries, principals and others that take care of administrative tasks. Then you have the teachers who actually do the teaching and then you have janitors and groundskeepers that kept everything up to snuff. There are gradation of “classes." This division of labor or specialization only holds these workers back from developing their full talents and abilities. When a Janitor toils all day cleaning up spilled milk he will only live an unfulfilled life. This is a reason why Marx tell us that we need to abolish capitalism and we need to allow all people to develop their multifaceted abilities.