I can understand people who don't personally want to have children. I can't understand people who have contempt for children, and (typically) contempt for the human legacy they make salient. It's a scary thing when a person's self-loathing is too big to fit their own skin alone
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Contempt for your job is common, for your boss even more so. But contempt for customers, particularly when they are children, is particularly dark.
Nobody really gets this — it's the third rail for *everyone* — but teachers *are* part-time substitute parents. During the school year, kids are spending about a third of their waking hours in the care of these people. They have no choice but to try to trust them & please them.
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Very young kids, especially, will do like Harry Harlow's poor baby monkeys: they'll try to weather out the consequences for whatever it is they've done wrong, and then they'll try desperately to "fix it," if they can. You really have to break a kid to stop getting this behavior.pic.twitter.com/45Y3xIV7W1
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That goes to show kid’s natural impulsion to learn. It isn’t getting them to learn that’s the problem, it might be that they are learning from a passive-aggressive cloth mother shooting brass bullets of menial work at them.
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Begs the question as to what degree you are limiting your child by sending them to school — 1/3 waking hours spent with substitute parents incentivized to spend as little time as possible(1/class size) interacting/teaching your over-active kid (1/contempt), using busy-work.
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Ivan Illich does an eccentric, but wonderful, job of criticizing modern education techniques in “Deschooling Society”
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