on school

…of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Ecclesiastes, chapter 12, verse 12

Nearly everyone has some experience of school. Usually they’ll have been to at least one, maybe two, maybe many. You might have been a parent, watching as your children went to one. You might have worked in a school, maybe you’ve even been a teacher. So you know what schools are, what they’re for; you know what they do and why the do it. At least in part. Do you? Do you really?