Why Categorise?

One of the problems with organising things from books, to clothes to cupboards to businesses, to schools is the first thing you have to do is put like things together in a category that unites them, this immediately drops the points of difference the uniqueness of each one because, in the case of a book, it becomes a work of fiction or non fiction, a romance or a thriller. But many thrillers are romantic and many romances are thrilling, so already things have become greyer or changed by classification. The more these categories are organised into sub categories the more difficult it is to stay away from making a judgement - this one is better than that one, because everyone wants to read between the lines when you say this one is different to that one. Because many of us care about the way others think of us, it is important to know if I choose this one it will be seen as OK or right or what would be expected of us and the perception of us. I think this is a major flaw in our intelligence system. But how to undesign it and to what purpose? Charles Darwin has given us a legacy of classifications of our surrounding natural life forms, certainly David Attenborough has now put a catalogue of lifeforms on film so we can refer to things we are interested in. Perhaps we can take these natural classifications where it is entirely impossible to say a black widow spider is better or worse than a snow leopard and put those thoughts onto schools and all agree it is entirely impossible to say if one school is better than another at a category level and perhaps parents can really understand that all schools are really different and each school is very special, just like every child we love.