I really see what we're doing to most kids in school as equivalent to a nonsurgical lobotomy — I think it likely damages cognition, attention & motivation. But my *VISCERAL HORROR* is that I believe it may make them less themselves, less of whatever we mean when we say "person."
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Do you think that if you hadn't been forced, you wouldn't have wanted to keep at something that was hard? Maybe, but kids attempt difficult things over and over all the time, *against* the advice of adults —it's the force that makes failure sting.
The typical school lumps a bunch of similarly-aged kids together and tells them what they ought to be able to do if they're not lazy and stupid. Did you go undiagnosed for 20 years without the slightest idea you could use some support? Of course not. You had to try to hide it.
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Kids are naturally "lumpy" — they're stronger in some areas than others, they don't all intuit the same way, and they do depth-first searches if they're given any opportunity at all to purse their own interests. It's why most end up thinking they're dumb, at one time or another.
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Totally agree with you about this problem. Outside of a handful of professors and teachers I feel like school failed me. But I’m open to
@spakhm point that some very baseline things should *maybe* be forced (like learning to read). That’s not what’s happening right now though.
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