A Luhmann Lesson  

Niklas Luhmann (December 8, 1927 – November 6, 1998) was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.

This is my interpretation of some of the things Niklas Luhmann has said or suggested. 

Students should not learn about environment anymore. Well, we should not put it that way. It is much more personal and individual talking about it as ecology. That is a more including word because it contains a thought of living in it. It is equating the individual and the nature.

The student is not a trivial machine. A trivial machine is only giving answers according to the information its programmed with. If you treat students like such a machine you only accept answers that is strictly correct according to the textbook. No place for individual thinking.

Reality has through the sciences imposed a special terminology. But reality can not be recognized by a form of words. Reality can be described as systems which serve to communicate. Communication creates reality and the dynamics of the system.

School is an institution where the input can be observed. But it is as a kind of black box because what happens in it is unpredictable. Similarly, the outputs.

(My addition:This is not an argument for not trying to educate children as good as possible. Because as more knowledge and learning that occur as greater the chance that something reasonably is happening.)