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This book intrigues me and sends out lots of challenges to think about. Here is the first one from page 32:
" Is our system of education and bringing up children sufficient to comprehend the meaing of existence, to arrange every individual's life-priorities in the ocrrect order? Does it help or hinder our ability to make sense of Man's essence and purpose?"
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ur system of education, needs to do a lot more to give our children a sense of their worth. They SHOULD first of learn what discipline is & self control means.
Teachers, parents, social workers, police have all lost the ability to control children, without beating, raping them
ita time these young people are shown how to cope with all our modern day feribles, Lets teach them how wonderful life can & should be & not afraid of their own shadowa.
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If parents took genuine response -ability for their children they would by default provide safe boundaries that expanded (and contracted) depending on the circumstances. hey also need to be present.
It is not necessary to hurt anyone - your child or yourself. What is required, though, is the awareness that it is YOU who CHOOSES what to think and it is YOU who then CHOOSES how to behave/respond.....you are the only person in your head! Accepting this leads to compassionate handling of everyone - especially children.
Hi Caroline
I found you via my muddled blundering around the Magazine looking for my poem. What a nice bonus to find this blog. :-)
I haven't read the books, although they look interesting (went and read the pdf "taster" for the first book).
In some ways the books seem a bit behind their times, since some of the ideas in them (suggested by the write ups on the books) are fairly well-entrenched ideas in some circles. The bit about the cedar is interesting though.
As for schooling... I don't think schooling has ever been useful in educating children properly ever. I was recently watching a dcumentary on schooling which pointed out the fundamental flaw in "modern" schooling. Our modern schools are based on a system created during the industrial age. Before then lower vlass children went straight to work, or apprenticeship, as children. Only upper class recieved any form of education. It was only during the industrial revolution that the need for more educated workers led to formal schools and these schools were geared mostly at producing people who could hold down clerical jobs. This schooling foundation has, sadly, dragged through an entire century without much alteration.
I have an excellent video of Sir Ken Robinson talking about education you should watch.
http://crows-feet.blogspot.com/2008/02/do-schools-today-kill-creativity.html
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