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Originally Posted by 2strokebloke
Hmmm, that's disturbing.
In school I always felt like school was really stupid for setting it's students up so poorly for the real world. Sheltering them, and hiding them from them from what is real.
I wouldn't say that we shouldn't watch out for the youth, but for the love of pie - don't hide them from everything. Don't force them to live in a world that isn't real. Let them learn through interaction, let them figure stuff out.
Life is not worksheets and tests - that is cruelty that is being unfair to the children, that is setting them up for life as machine, they may as well be a computer reading punch cards and retrieving information from their memory banks.
I hope my children never have to face such degrading and humiliating "education" in their lives.
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I agree. Having gone to school with a very diverse group since pre-school, I have seen just about everytype of person there is. Don't take that too literally b/c no one is the same. Anyways, I have witnessed drug deals in school, witnessed a gun going off in class(accidental, but bad nonetheless bad), been friends with gang members, been harassed(only once or twice b/c I was friends with most everyone). I could go on and on.
My point is, that witnessing and being around all of these different situations could have changed me for the worse. But its my parents that brought me up to have good morals and respect people. But none of what was taught by my parents was enforced. It was myself that had to learn what I view as right and wrong, moral and immoral.
A lot has to do with the environment in which we grow up around. Just b/c some people are gang members or sell drugs or do drugs doesnt necessarily make them bad people. It may take a bad experience to make someone realize what they're doing is wrong. Some never learn, but many do. It's those that do, that usually end up trying to make changes for the best and teach others what not to do and view them as an example.
As for education side of things. Many people see education as the most important thing there is in the world. I am one that doesnt. I do think that everyone and I mean everyone needs to graduate from high school. Its the persons choice afterwards whether or not to achieve a high education. Just b/c they don't doesnt make things bad, college just isn't for everyone. The things I see as far more important than education is family and friends. Without family and friends, a person really has nothing. No one to love, no one to care for, no one to care for them etc. Love and care is what this society needs to help smooth along the process.
This world is full of bad people and bad things. But there are far more good people in this world than we can see or even acknowledge. It's the negativity that the mediums show and tell us. You have to teach kids to look beyond the bad and try and find the good.