>>1608
Ok, you experienced it as torture though it was none in the common meaning. At least it did not matter if was real or you and your mother "only" felt like it was - the impact was the same. I see. So it was a terrible shortcoming on side of your teachers.
However, there are differences between your situation and FGM (as I mentioned before):
- You got something build up (knowledge/skills) versus FGM destroys something (pleasure).
- Your "torture" benefitted you versus FGM benefits the girls future husbands.
- Your (mental) pain ended (more or less) someday versus mutilated girls suffer from their (physical and mental) pain a life long.

I agree with you in regard to the teaching content of schools. A lot of what I learned at school I never needed again. Fundamental knowledge and skills (read/write/calculate) and some "add-ons" (eg. local history, foreign languages, geography, political education) are surely reasonable. All of it is still helpful for me. Beside these subjects it should be teached how one can aquire further knowledge and skills on its own. This unfortunately happens seldom.