In the beginning, life was carefree. Kids, just prior to schooling, would play, socialize, act out, and pretend. You didn't need a toy. And your looks didn't matter. So long as a bat and ball were involved, or so long as some girls and a playhouse were involved, all was good to go.
Then as you enter school, or forced schooling, you fall into a hierarchy. Even in the very beginnings, rules begin to take shape. Teacher-parent conferences give your parents updates on what strangers judge to be your social, mental, and emotional progress.
Suzie is the class hoe, she works skimpy clothes, even at 10, and because she's well-developed it's assumed her only offering is her body.
Ricky is the class jock. When he was young, his dad pushed him hard, very hard to be the best. This transferred to other arenas and so now at 11 it's assumed he'll be the H.S. Captain of every team.
John is the class nerd, so it seems. He loves video games and at 10 he can dismantle a computer and rebuild it. He taught his parents how to use it.
Jeff is the class comedian. He does funny, comedic things and gains a reward. When people laugh, he feels redeemed, valued, so he keeps it up. Many times he finds himself in detention because he flaunts the rules.
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At the earliest outset of youth, kids are sent into a social scene where ranking and social structure occur. For more than 8 hours per day from the very beginning, kids are pegged into certain roles, just as I labeled above.
You get stars for attendence. For good work done. For good behavior. The stars are then displayed to your parents so they can be proud of your social progress by government and public standards, and NOT by their own family values.
If you break the line, if you go against the norm, then it's likely you'll end up in the principals' office. Where he, not your father, and not necessarily someone you respect, tells you who you are, what you'll become, and what's right and wrong. Then, they forward this information onto your family so that you the punishment can continue.
Grades are administered based on solely the memorization of words, paragraphs, and phrases. Parotting back answers is the only 'acceptable' means of achievement. It places emphasis not on ASKING questions, but on ANSWERING questions. Schooling does not focus on FURTHERING courses of study, but of giving you enough knowledge to make you valuable to companies and corporate America.
You become a tool of information bought to enhance the profitability of a company. Think not? Examine the testing. Schooling began as think tanks, where deep, introspective questions where asked. Now it exists solely as memorization, where tests are had every month on how well you MEMORIZE the knowledge, not on how well you KNOW it and UNDERSTAND it. And by now, nobody can recall more than 10% of what they did before college, and perhaps even less than that.
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Consider that ILLITERACY is on the decline, while EDUCATION spending is at an all-time high. That we have more access to free education than ever before, and more illiterate and uneducated people. That the reading ability of society has declined, mostly due to the reading that is assigned in school.
Before, kids would read lengthy, respected novels. Shakespeare, Hemmingway, even historical works of Franklin, this all before the age of 10. THAT is where kids learned to read. Perhaps they didn't UNDERSTAND it, but they began to know the words, and how to say them. Then it was only a matter of KNOWING what they meant.
Consider that kids KNOW how to speak before they learn to read, YET, we slow that process down with such infantile words as CAT, HAT, BAT, and SAT.
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In school, the theme is get in line, wait your turn, and your time will come. Only, if you wait in the same line, you'll get what everyone else ahead of you got. And it depends on what line you get in.
Get in the elite line, and you get wealth.
Get in the ivy leagues and get prestige.
Get in the college line, get middle to upper class.
Get in the high school line, get middle to low class.
There will be exceptions to every rule, to every supposed perfection. BUT...by and large 95% of the country hits that mark, and politicians, and officials, and corporate America are willing to accept this.
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You might ask, 'why is it this way?'
For one thing, control. The minute you step into the system you come to believe life is this way. Education is the door opener to all life. It is, but not the way it is taught. You're in schooling for roughly 12 years, but most go for at least 16, possibly 20. From the minute you have basic comprehension skills, you are put into a system. A system of ranking, of socialization, of branding identities, a complete and orderly social structure, that few ever escape from.
Look deeper at the tragedy that schooling is and see how it harms the youth. How kids are bulled and beaten and school do little to stop it. Is that not fragile to a young child? And yet, parents are ok with it? But, if they allowed their same kid to go to a friend's house and he was beaten by the parents, would they not press charges? Prevent him from ever going again? HELL YES!
Look at the education. Most guys here know, no one person learns the same way. In fact, there are many ways to learn. And learning is not on any time line. I could learn math fast, but english slow. You could learn english fast, but math slow. So what? Eventually we get there. Learning IS the fun part. But learning things that make us individually GREAT.
Ever wonder why we have a 'basic' system of learning. Math, english, science, some art, history? Wouldn't that be to make everybody the same? As long as we can do math and know how to talk/write, I believe we can operate in society. Yet, many people take basic courses and DO NOT know how to live in society.
This system makes every child a market. A market has specific behavior, so companies know exactly what they can hire and exactly who they can sell to. Programs can be devised to SELL to a certain market. And so can college courses be devised to sell students to a certain employer. In most cases, the best colleges are the best simply because they have the greatest reputation with top employers. Ask any Bentley or Bryant student.
"So and so ONLY recruits from here because it likes our programs and trusts our students."
Who's side is college on?
Your's or their's?
Programs are designed for corporate America. Made for the market.
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Social anxiety creeps up because everywhere you turned in this 'system', penalties were awarded. If you got bad grades, bam, detention, your parent were disappointed, etc. If you spoke out, with original thought, bam detention, principal etc. If you dressed slightly awkward, because your parents couldn't afford it, bam, you were ridiculed by kids, your peers, and those whom you 'respected' then and who would help shape your self-confidence and friendships, possibly forever.
Don't go to school and you're labeled a loser. Your own family may even turn on you for 'being so foolish'. Your grandparents would look down on you. Maybe even expulsion. If you're too fat or too skinny, you were ridiculed. No where in the world does a more nervous, anxiety-ridden, and pressure-cooked atmosphere exist.
Everywhere you turned MISTAKE! God, don't make a mistake! Don't go to detention! Don't get bad grades! Don't buck the trends!
See why people fear socializing? Everybody thinks it's schooling all over again. Everybody' self images comes down to what was gained or lost during those formative years.
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To further condemn the system, examine 'sex ed.'
Sex ed? Are you kidding me? Its ok for the state and some stranger to teach your kids values and feelings about one of the most important topics out there?!
And yet, the state says "well someone has to." Why aren't parents infuriated about this? In massachusetts, many schools are having GAY TOLERANCE programs, and advocating kids, young kids under 10 who feel things to CONSIDER BEING GAY. WHAT THE?
Kids are there to learn, yet someone would say this isn't some system of controlling behavior?
Parents are the emotional epicenter of a kids' life. And if not, hopefully when they grow up, they gain full autonomy over their feelings and realize all of their former years were a BIG FAT WHITE LIE.
It's inexcusable that we allow this to occur. And it's inexcusable that strangers, and a system like this, tell kids what to feel, think and do. The only people qualified to do that are happy, healthy, positive, loving people that are there for them.
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And most people once they leave schooling, still remember their experiences as if it was their way of life. As if ALL life was like this. As if socially, every turn was a failure or success. As if stepping out of line was a threat. As if encountering a new stranger was like the first day of a new class. As if you were being judged the same ways.
And you know what? Some people will, but do you want to be one of those social robots? A by product of a system built centuries ago under perfection even now?
Think of how the social programs still running in your head work. How when something pops up, you're reminded of something in the past.
A-Unit
Then as you enter school, or forced schooling, you fall into a hierarchy. Even in the very beginnings, rules begin to take shape. Teacher-parent conferences give your parents updates on what strangers judge to be your social, mental, and emotional progress.
Suzie is the class hoe, she works skimpy clothes, even at 10, and because she's well-developed it's assumed her only offering is her body.
Ricky is the class jock. When he was young, his dad pushed him hard, very hard to be the best. This transferred to other arenas and so now at 11 it's assumed he'll be the H.S. Captain of every team.
John is the class nerd, so it seems. He loves video games and at 10 he can dismantle a computer and rebuild it. He taught his parents how to use it.
Jeff is the class comedian. He does funny, comedic things and gains a reward. When people laugh, he feels redeemed, valued, so he keeps it up. Many times he finds himself in detention because he flaunts the rules.
--------------------------------------------
At the earliest outset of youth, kids are sent into a social scene where ranking and social structure occur. For more than 8 hours per day from the very beginning, kids are pegged into certain roles, just as I labeled above.
You get stars for attendence. For good work done. For good behavior. The stars are then displayed to your parents so they can be proud of your social progress by government and public standards, and NOT by their own family values.
If you break the line, if you go against the norm, then it's likely you'll end up in the principals' office. Where he, not your father, and not necessarily someone you respect, tells you who you are, what you'll become, and what's right and wrong. Then, they forward this information onto your family so that you the punishment can continue.
Grades are administered based on solely the memorization of words, paragraphs, and phrases. Parotting back answers is the only 'acceptable' means of achievement. It places emphasis not on ASKING questions, but on ANSWERING questions. Schooling does not focus on FURTHERING courses of study, but of giving you enough knowledge to make you valuable to companies and corporate America.
You become a tool of information bought to enhance the profitability of a company. Think not? Examine the testing. Schooling began as think tanks, where deep, introspective questions where asked. Now it exists solely as memorization, where tests are had every month on how well you MEMORIZE the knowledge, not on how well you KNOW it and UNDERSTAND it. And by now, nobody can recall more than 10% of what they did before college, and perhaps even less than that.
----------------------------------------
Consider that ILLITERACY is on the decline, while EDUCATION spending is at an all-time high. That we have more access to free education than ever before, and more illiterate and uneducated people. That the reading ability of society has declined, mostly due to the reading that is assigned in school.
Before, kids would read lengthy, respected novels. Shakespeare, Hemmingway, even historical works of Franklin, this all before the age of 10. THAT is where kids learned to read. Perhaps they didn't UNDERSTAND it, but they began to know the words, and how to say them. Then it was only a matter of KNOWING what they meant.
Consider that kids KNOW how to speak before they learn to read, YET, we slow that process down with such infantile words as CAT, HAT, BAT, and SAT.
------------------------------------------
In school, the theme is get in line, wait your turn, and your time will come. Only, if you wait in the same line, you'll get what everyone else ahead of you got. And it depends on what line you get in.
Get in the elite line, and you get wealth.
Get in the ivy leagues and get prestige.
Get in the college line, get middle to upper class.
Get in the high school line, get middle to low class.
There will be exceptions to every rule, to every supposed perfection. BUT...by and large 95% of the country hits that mark, and politicians, and officials, and corporate America are willing to accept this.
---------------------------------------
You might ask, 'why is it this way?'
For one thing, control. The minute you step into the system you come to believe life is this way. Education is the door opener to all life. It is, but not the way it is taught. You're in schooling for roughly 12 years, but most go for at least 16, possibly 20. From the minute you have basic comprehension skills, you are put into a system. A system of ranking, of socialization, of branding identities, a complete and orderly social structure, that few ever escape from.
Look deeper at the tragedy that schooling is and see how it harms the youth. How kids are bulled and beaten and school do little to stop it. Is that not fragile to a young child? And yet, parents are ok with it? But, if they allowed their same kid to go to a friend's house and he was beaten by the parents, would they not press charges? Prevent him from ever going again? HELL YES!
Look at the education. Most guys here know, no one person learns the same way. In fact, there are many ways to learn. And learning is not on any time line. I could learn math fast, but english slow. You could learn english fast, but math slow. So what? Eventually we get there. Learning IS the fun part. But learning things that make us individually GREAT.
Ever wonder why we have a 'basic' system of learning. Math, english, science, some art, history? Wouldn't that be to make everybody the same? As long as we can do math and know how to talk/write, I believe we can operate in society. Yet, many people take basic courses and DO NOT know how to live in society.
This system makes every child a market. A market has specific behavior, so companies know exactly what they can hire and exactly who they can sell to. Programs can be devised to SELL to a certain market. And so can college courses be devised to sell students to a certain employer. In most cases, the best colleges are the best simply because they have the greatest reputation with top employers. Ask any Bentley or Bryant student.
"So and so ONLY recruits from here because it likes our programs and trusts our students."
Who's side is college on?
Your's or their's?
Programs are designed for corporate America. Made for the market.
----------------------------------------
Social anxiety creeps up because everywhere you turned in this 'system', penalties were awarded. If you got bad grades, bam, detention, your parent were disappointed, etc. If you spoke out, with original thought, bam detention, principal etc. If you dressed slightly awkward, because your parents couldn't afford it, bam, you were ridiculed by kids, your peers, and those whom you 'respected' then and who would help shape your self-confidence and friendships, possibly forever.
Don't go to school and you're labeled a loser. Your own family may even turn on you for 'being so foolish'. Your grandparents would look down on you. Maybe even expulsion. If you're too fat or too skinny, you were ridiculed. No where in the world does a more nervous, anxiety-ridden, and pressure-cooked atmosphere exist.
Everywhere you turned MISTAKE! God, don't make a mistake! Don't go to detention! Don't get bad grades! Don't buck the trends!
See why people fear socializing? Everybody thinks it's schooling all over again. Everybody' self images comes down to what was gained or lost during those formative years.
-----------------------------------------
To further condemn the system, examine 'sex ed.'
Sex ed? Are you kidding me? Its ok for the state and some stranger to teach your kids values and feelings about one of the most important topics out there?!
And yet, the state says "well someone has to." Why aren't parents infuriated about this? In massachusetts, many schools are having GAY TOLERANCE programs, and advocating kids, young kids under 10 who feel things to CONSIDER BEING GAY. WHAT THE?
Kids are there to learn, yet someone would say this isn't some system of controlling behavior?
Parents are the emotional epicenter of a kids' life. And if not, hopefully when they grow up, they gain full autonomy over their feelings and realize all of their former years were a BIG FAT WHITE LIE.
It's inexcusable that we allow this to occur. And it's inexcusable that strangers, and a system like this, tell kids what to feel, think and do. The only people qualified to do that are happy, healthy, positive, loving people that are there for them.
----------------------------------------
And most people once they leave schooling, still remember their experiences as if it was their way of life. As if ALL life was like this. As if socially, every turn was a failure or success. As if stepping out of line was a threat. As if encountering a new stranger was like the first day of a new class. As if you were being judged the same ways.
And you know what? Some people will, but do you want to be one of those social robots? A by product of a system built centuries ago under perfection even now?
Think of how the social programs still running in your head work. How when something pops up, you're reminded of something in the past.
A-Unit
