Past being annoyed at the guys approach on the issue I would say that if he had come at it from a different angle he would have a point.

Kids leave school feeling as though theres nothing out there for them, they learn to rebel against the system (mindlessly) through their mis education at school, if you talk to them or know how they feel about it you can translate their attitude toward it all as a general mistrust of what they have been taught and rightfully so.

Most of them leave and say the same thing, ''f*ck school'' (or something thereof) ask them why and they'll try and explain, probably talk about the teachers and how they feel as though they've been mistreated but past that its their mistrust of the education system they know something isn't right but can't put a finger on it so they rebel against it completely, they start to see those that do read as sell outs of some kind, something that isn't ''cool'' because they assume its the same garbage they were taught, something they can't see themselves within as its all colonial junk, outright lies... past that they later realize that (out side of the school doctrine) there is something out there for them but for many its then too late so they resent those that managed to escape with their blackselves intact and perpetuate the problem.

The revolution has been left headless over the past few years through gross media censorship and so on, youths are still rebelling they just can't see what it is they're fighting so they're swinging at anything that seems suspicious.

Funny cause I was going to make a thread about the education system in this country, was going to ask if it has officially failed us in this country, seems to be only good at bringing up kids with such a lack of self respect/purpose that rather than leave with all the hopeful aspirations you'd expect in a a young one they want to be convicts and ''goons'' (new slang term, lord save us).

Personally make a point of reading on a bus, well I used to, haven't been so much recently, prefer to sit and relax with a book than have mobile stereo phones as backing music to what ever it is I'm reading.

Education system failure.