School - An illusion you may not have seen until now, but that now cannot be ignored or unseen.

What School Really Prepared You For — and the empowerment to live peacefully and independently that was conspicuously missing.

We’re told school prepares us for life.It’s the message repeated from the moment we put on that first uniform: work hard, follow the rules, and the world will open its doors.

But if school truly prepared us for life, why did so many of us leave without the skills or confidence to actually do anything, least of all live peacefully and independently? Why did we learn to memorise, to obey, and to compete — yet not how to grow food, manage money, or build something of our own or manage our minds and avoid the inner chaos that so many now have?

Let’s take an honest look at what school actually taught (and is still teaching the class of '25, and what it quietly and significantly leaves out.

The Hidden, Repeated Curriculum

Every lesson at school carried two layers. The visible layer taught reading, writing, mathematics, and history. The hidden layer taught authority, compliance and penalties.

We queued for lunch. We asked permission to speak or even to go to the toilet. We followed timetables written by someone else. We learned that being late, questioning a rule, or thinking differently could mean punishment or ridicule.

So is it education or conditioning? School primarily trains us to move through and within hierarchical systems, not to understand or shape them. By the time we leave, most of us are fluent in following instructions, memorising useless facts and anxious about breaking rules.

That conditioning continues in the cult of societal life — it repeats in offices, interactions with local councils, and on tax forms. Even the language is do this or else, do it now or pay the price. We’ve been prepared not to live freely, but to participate and comply quietly.

Time moved on and the stakes got higher. At school the rules were about timekeeping, paying attention, participation, compliance and competition - but the preparation was for acceptance. Acceptance of rules, layered taxes and penalties. After all, without school would you be so willing to be told what to do, accept that there are consequences and pay penalties that someone says are due?

So the authority and penalties were there, but what was missing?

Ask yourself what you actually needed once you left school.

Did it teach you how to budget, grow vegetables, or repair a leaky roof? Did it show you how to resolve conflict peacefully, or how to work with neighbours to share resources? Did it explain the legal difference between a human being and the roles we play — employee, taxpayer, citizen? Did it allow you to invest the money, and earn without the hard labour or minimise the very tax burdens it creates? Most of us had to learn those things on our own, through trial, error, and debt.

The system produced workers, not creators. Consumers, not caretakers. It celebrated exams, not wisdom. And once you became a participant, it sold you escape mechanisms not solutions.

Independence Re-discovered

Yet, outside that conditioning, life still exists in its natural simplicity. Like it was before the system was created, and you were illicitly groomed to participate.

You can still grow food. You can collect water. You can build a shelter, share land, and you can teach your what matters children directly in a form that they will actually love. When groups of families do this together — sharing time, tools, and knowledge — the hours of labour shrink and the quality of life expands exponentially. Children work with their parents on the projects that matter, and they learn as a direct and indirect result.

Real education begins again: how to listen to the seasons, to understand soil, to manage conflict without authority, to cooperate without coercion. To be treat as equals and to live a life without force, penalty and constantly being told what to do.

Independence doesn’t mean isolation. It means having the skills and confidence to meet your needs peacefully — and to choose collaboration, not dependency. It also means being aware of who is actually in authority, and what penalties are lawful and valid.

The Cost of Forgetting

A society that forgets how to live without instruction becomes easy to control. When every essential — food, energy, water, transport — is centralised, people exchange freedom for access. They pay taxes, licences, and fees for what was once shared or freely given.

They accept a life of penalties, without ever asking the questions that conditioning has erased.

That’s not a natural state of humanity; it’s the outcome of design. And it began when the classroom replaced the village as the centre of learning, and authority outside of the self was normalised.

A New Kind of Learning

Imagine if education began with the simple question: What kind of life do you want to live? Lessons could include how to grow, build, communicate, and create. Children would learn how to manage their emotions, share resources, and respect nature — not just how to memorise to pass exams.

The measure of success would be peace and self-reliance, not grades and debt. Knowledge would return to its purpose: to help life flourish, not to feed bureaucracy. And the facts and information would no longer be controlled and carefully restricted, to ensure that compliance is inherent and penalties can be applied without question.

Empowerment Through Awareness

This isn’t about revolution, it's about seeing the cult that is society. It’s about understanding the shape of the one we inherited — and remembering we can change track and reshape our own lives peacefully.

When you see that school prepared you to fit in, to comply and to pay endless layered taxes not to live free, the illusion loses its hypnotic power. Awareness brings visibility of a deception that pervades not just education but transforms life into struggle and compliance and debt. But it also reveals the fragility and the reason for the conditioned approach, because if you see the trick the game is over. The trick is the person, and it's that control was never real. School was the vehicle, and the conditioned mind became the cage and reason for compliance. Once seen however, the cage dissolves.

You can begin today: Choose independence not compliance, your life not theirs. Plant something you can eat. Learn a craft. Teach your child directly. Connect with neighbours. Share what you know. Exit the rules, penalties and compliance.

Bit by bit, a path without dependence emerges, and an alternative that will bring peace returns. It starts today by choosing to leave the person cult, and remember your own authority. To step out of fear, compliance and penalities, and to break the mind shackles that school created.

The Education of the Future

True education isn’t found in a classroom; it’s lived through relationship — with people, with the land, and with truth. It's not the 9 to 5, it's not 5 or 6 days a week. It's not something that needs you to escape. And it's no longer survival over life.

It teaches that there are no self proclaimed authorities, that cooperation is more powerful than competition, and that freedom is responsibility, not permission.

If school prepared you to participate, life now invites you to remember. Remember how to live, how to care, and how to create without coercion. The first step on that path, is to leave the "person" behind and to claim your life back as a living being. That’s the lesson that was missing — and it’s the one that can change everything.

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