I think that one sentence says it all. That’s why school doesn’t work. Forced education turns our most valuable commodity (our children) into one of three things:
A) “yes” men that excel at doing what they’re told and delight in collecting gold stars from authority.
B) dropouts. The kids that refuse to be told what to do. Sometimes labeled ADHD, there’s nothing wrong with these kids! They just have a little too much moxie. Instead of medicating them, we ought to be putting them in charge!
C) The majority: they get told what to do, they go along with it, but they develop an attitude as a way of rebelling against the system. My theory is that the “difficult teen years” are nothing more than a reaction from being told what to do their entire lives.
Why do we insist on forcing “education” down the throats of our children. Why can’t they just learn ONLY what interests them. The “experts” say that all children should know the multiplication tables by a certain age. WHY!!! Why not let them learn it when they need it. My son is learning multiplication because i point it out when he’s receptive to it. IE, when he’s trying to figure out how much money he will have after 4 weeks of $8/week allowances. “Hey Q, did you know there’s an easier way to do that?”
I’m not a debater, or an essayist…. the point I’m trying to make is that different children have different interests. They’ll only learn when they want to learn. Forcing knowledge on them, just pisses them off. The children are in a sense getting homogenized and losing their wonderful creativity. The name of the game is “trust.” We need to trust our children.
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