Schooling is probably not the first thing we think of when we think of children learning to normalise violence. Yet schooling pre-Rupture was based on a system of implicit violence, including competition, labelling, measurement and objectifying.

In addition explicit violence included bullying from both peers and sometimes teachers, as well as teaching children to normalise violence to the nonhuman, for example, school meals included flesh and excretions from the farmed nonhuman. Some lessons, for example, biology, included direct violence. In biology for example, nonhumans were dissected by children, and organs were kept in specimen jars, right up until the 2020s, when these practices were gradually replaced with learning about tissues and organs online.

This installation in the Museum of Human violence focuses on a biology class. Ceramic frogs jump out of the specimen jars in protest. The violence of the instructions on the blackboard becomes normalised in the context of school and learning. As with the installation on learning violence: home, this installation is conceived as part of a larger gallery on schooling more widely. Posters, maps and free booklets are again available. (see below).