I used to get spanked, swatted with a paddle, and once dragged out of a classroom by my ear and a spock hold because the girl next to me said I stole her lunch money. After getting dragged out, the girl found her money.
I won't get into what the police did on a couple of occasions.
But I question authority. I don't care what they teach kids in school these days. I question public education.
In Kindergarten I was vigorously slapped on the back of the head
without warning by my public school kindergarten teacher for
drawing a green squirrel in a class crayon drawing session, causing
me to immediately void my bladder. They had failed to explain that
this was supposed to be a study in artistic realism rather than abstract
expressionism.
This is doubtless the sole explanation for any character flaws I may
exhibit at this time.
There is no other human authority to which an appeal can tell one about themselves.
The problem is experts and people who empower them with their appeals for expertise, in a word Credentialism.
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan
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I used to get spanked, swatted with a paddle, and once dragged out of a classroom by my ear and a spock hold because the girl next to me said I stole her lunch money. After getting dragged out, the girl found her money.
I won't get into what the police did on a couple of occasions.
But I question authority. I don't care what they teach kids in school these days. I question public education.
In Kindergarten I was vigorously slapped on the back of the head
without warning by my public school kindergarten teacher for
drawing a green squirrel in a class crayon drawing session, causing
me to immediately void my bladder. They had failed to explain that
this was supposed to be a study in artistic realism rather than abstract
expressionism.
This is doubtless the sole explanation for any character flaws I may
exhibit at this time.
There is no other human authority to which an appeal can tell one about themselves.
The problem is experts and people who empower them with their appeals for expertise, in a word Credentialism.
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
-Leonardo da Vinci
they want a cheap workforce for Corporate America.
They want dumb ones. And those that favor the police state. And big government.
All of which thwart individualism and creativity.