The Curse of Education

"The Curse of Education" by Harold Edward Gorst is a study, published around the start of the 1900's, that explores the bad impacts of how people are formally taught, especially on being yourself and giftedness. The book says that schools and teachers usually make everyone the same instead of helping them grow their own special talents. Gorst believes that the strict rules of schools ruin what makes someone unique and hurts their ability to do great things. To begin, the book talks about how education is changing people into copies of each other, made by the rules of schools, instead of helping them become their best selves. Gorst doesn't like how schools make everyone the same, and believes that this makes people lack new ideas and the drive to start things on their own. The author uses stories from different jobs to show that people often get ahead not because they deserve it, but because they're good at remembering facts and following rules instead of thinking for themselves and coming up with new ideas. This start of the book shows that Gorst wants to question the things society thinks are important, because of the way schools are run.