From the Bored of
Education:
- Speaking as a former hellion and outcast in
school, I think using drugs to "control" kids
is a criminal act !
-
- It breaks my heart to see millions of kids being
herded
- into the free-world's most dangerous busses every
day,
- being condemned to face another umpteen years of
norm-paced routines,
- being groomed for a lifetime of overtime,
- being expected only to conform.
- The REAL reason a child is over-active
- (not a disease)
- is probably because he's bored!
- Young minds
- move
- WAY
- faster
- than ours,
- the learning
- window starts to
- close by
- age
- seven,
- yet here we are, plugging along in this almighty
archaic school system, imprisoning young people until
they're 18!
- If we're going to do that, at LEAST keep their
minds busy.
- My mother managed to graduate at age 15,
- and went on to college!
- What's wrong with that?
- Yet when I mention this at a PTA meeting,
- people go right back to debating next week's
lunch menu.
- Am I THAT far off-track?
- Don't parents care?
- ARE we obedient little creatures of habit?
- Speak up :)
- What has gotten INTO you people?
- Are you even afraid of "today's"
principal?
- Will we still be using the school system as
babysitters in another 50 years?
- There's no mystery here folks, only millions of
bored young minds
- who are doomed to pay dearly for the apathy of
their elders.
- Nobody can TEACH a kid anyway,
- you expose him to everything you can,
- find out where his aptitude is,
- loan him the tools to learn,
- and get out of his way.
- period.
-
- If we can feed their imaginations at home,
- if peers can feed their imaginations on the
steet,
- then teachers can do it in school.
-
- Over 50 years ago, my favorite(-to be) teacher
asked us the first day in class,
- "What do you like about math?"
- When the question finally got back to him,
- then he proceeded to show us stuff we'd never
imagined!
- WAY COOL!
-
- But we're on the job front now folks.
- While we celebrate this great economy
- and drive bubble cars with airbags,
- please don't forget that our future
- sits TRAPPED in classrooms,
- waiting to be hauled back and forth in
- top-heavy tin trucks without even seat belts!
- Who cares? Kids do, that's who! :)
- So it becomes the duty of kids to educate US.
- If YOU really want to learn,
- your kids will be happy
- to loan you the tools.
-
- Ask your kids. ASK your kids! ASK your KIDS !!
- Ask your kids. Please.
- Old Warrior