Schools need to be beautiful.
People care more when they break a ming vase than when they break a mass produced cheap bowl that was cast from a mold.
Our schools need to be unique, expensive and well designed because otherwise they get vandalised and dilapidated, and because of the psychological complications that stem from being around ugliness. Places that have consciousness invested in them - often places of worship - are revered and maintained. Schools are our temples in which we pray for the future by doing charity work (let's face it - might as well be unpaid) so why don't we make them look holy?
With children, what you put in is what you get out - when you feed kids red icy-poles they turn feral. If what you put in is what you get out, a human who ingests beautiful things through the eyes knows how to be beautiful (ordered, precise, considered, delicate, charming) more than someone who sees under fluorescent lighting and is caged inside of boxes made from board-formed concrete where shouting and door slams echo at an unbearably loud volume.
People care more when they break a ming vase than when they break a mass produced cheap bowl that was cast from a mold.
Our schools need to be unique, expensive and well designed because otherwise they get vandalised and dilapidated, and because of the psychological complications that stem from being around ugliness. Places that have consciousness invested in them - often places of worship - are revered and maintained. Schools are our temples in which we pray for the future by doing charity work (let's face it - might as well be unpaid) so why don't we make them look holy?
With children, what you put in is what you get out - when you feed kids red icy-poles they turn feral. If what you put in is what you get out, a human who ingests beautiful things through the eyes knows how to be beautiful (ordered, precise, considered, delicate, charming) more than someone who sees under fluorescent lighting and is caged inside of boxes made from board-formed concrete where shouting and door slams echo at an unbearably loud volume.
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