The World In A Different Perspective?

We've all been taught that schools are places to learn in. Where we learn to differentiate good from bad. A crime from a lawful act. But think about it this way. What if ignorance were a crime, and schools are merely jails for the uneducated ignorant criminals?

If that were the case, it would be natural that all humans will enter this jail at one point in time or the other, considering how we're all born ignorant, or so most believe. Coincidentally enough, this is true in most countries with the facilities to imprison their young.

Let's look at the other similarities that exist between a stereotypical jail and this "jail", that goes by the name of a school.

Jails are built to keep criminals from entering or staying in society to prevent them from doing harm. In order to achieve this, they lock the prisoners in their cells, allowing them minimal contact with the general law-abiding public. There they will remain, until a time the criminals are deemed to have reformed, or learnt from the error of their ways and thus will not pollute society with their crimes any further. In a school, the "prisoners", also known as students, are kept in their respective cells, known as classrooms, for the majority of the day. Does this not minimise their contact with the rest of the world? As if this was not enough, students are also expected to continue remaining in their prison for a long enough period of time until they have acquired enough knowledge to cease to be considered "ignorant", thereby freeing them of guilt from their initial crime of ignorance. These similarities basically show the relationship between a jail for the ignorant, and a jail for the rest of the criminals.

Prisons expect the prisoners to be clad in one identical set of clothing to identify them, and likely, to prevent any one individual prisoner from being too different from the rest of the prisoners, and to differentiate the prisoners from the wardens. In mainstream schools, students don their uniforms, which dismisses any thought of individuality, probably in the hope that none will be able to resist the urge to conform and lead the others astray, or to escape from this jail they have no choice but to be cooped up in. Is this not yet another proof that students are actually deemed as criminals rather than law abiding citizens, even though they have not willingly committed any crimes?

Furthermore, there's also the stigma placed by society on criminals that immediately render them unable to seek a better life even if they have managed to escape from their jail term, by being permanently labeled. Convicted criminals are unable to enter places of interest or just about anywhere without fear of being apprehended or shunned by society. Students, also, are prevented from entering such premises unless they adorn a camouflage which manages to conceal their identity as criminals of ignorance. Students are not allowed to access recreational facilities such as game arcades or billiard houses during their "jail term", also known as lesson time, which being chased out by the operators in the facilities, under the grounds of being "under-aged". Don't they mean "unlawful ignorants" instead?

Of course, all these only hold true if it is considered that being ignorant might be a crime, and who's to say it's not, other than the governments of the world with their subtle propaganda? Let the students roam free, I say, and let them not be looked upon as criminals for not knowing enough about the world.
Individualism, and not a conformist attitude, is the way to go for the world.