http://www.400words.com/2006/12/16/work-versus-school/ :life is literature Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.400words.com/2006/12/16/work-versus-school/#comment-396 Stephanie Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:42:59 +0000 http://www.400words.com/2006/12/16/work-versus-school/#comment-396 I think parents often use the dismissive "my job is to go to work, your job is to go to school" analogy when we're little and we're questioning these things. "Job," then, like you indicated, means "something unpleasant involving authority figures and painful social interactions that you are required to sit through 5 days a week." I bet we'd have a different attitude towards job and work if this parallel weren't always drawn. And if school weren't in part desinged somehow to simulate the 9-5 schedule/environment. We can start thinking differently about what we owe and what we deserve. In conclusion, it's time to overthrow Protestant hegemony. Let's tell kids it's their "job" to enjoy the world and make it enjoyable for others. I liked your piece. I think parents often use the dismissive “my job is to go to work, your job is to go to school” analogy when we’re little and we’re questioning these things. “Job,” then, like you indicated, means “something unpleasant involving authority figures and painful social interactions that you are required to sit through 5 days a week.” I bet we’d have a different attitude towards job and work if this parallel weren’t always drawn. And if school weren’t in part desinged somehow to simulate the 9-5 schedule/environment. We can start thinking differently about what we owe and what we deserve. In conclusion, it’s time to overthrow Protestant hegemony. Let’s tell kids it’s their “job” to enjoy the world and make it enjoyable for others.
I liked your piece.

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