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RE: The Education System Produces Braindead and Soulless Children

in #anarchism8 years ago

The only academic skill that children need to learn is basic literacy and numeracy. That doesn't take ten years. At most 2 hours per day for 2 months to learn the alphabet and how basic grammar works, 2 months to be read to every day and in turn read for themselves (which everyone does for themselves anyway), 2 months to learn how the number system works (1, 2....10, 11, 12 ... 99, 100, 101 etc), 2 months to learn subtraction, addition, division and multiplication works and that's it. At most - 2hrs/day for 8 months. That's all you need. And these kind of skills are reinforced because everyone reads and makes basic calculations on a regular basis. I learned sine, cos, tan and calculus in school but I have long since forgotten that knowledge because it is not relevant to my life. That knowledge was pointless.
If they want to learn more then they easily can (everyone has the internet and books are plentiful).
What children really need to learn (and what they do on their own) is Social Skills. This is probably the Most Important skill there is. I'm not sure if school is necessarily Bad for social skills but I would argue that school is bad for the mental health of children (especially boys) and that this institution would therefore interfere with the development of social skills.
Children don't need to be governed to learn how to interact. If they are being governed then they aren't really learning how to interact with other children. They are learning how to obey orders and not think for themselves. Meeting new people requires desire and intelligence - something that being governed (enslaved) erodes.
So these are the basic skills that children really need to learn - basic Literacy, Numeracy and Social Skills. All other skills are job-specific and should be learned from the parents.
The child's father should have a job.
The mother should stay at home - this is the ultimate job there is.
Breast feeding is enormously important for the mental development of children.
Only women can actually give birth (needless to say).
Women just Do Better in an inside environment with managing duties (these are the kind of professions which working women generally gravitate towards)
If a woman is pregnant then she shouldn't be stressed (bad for the baby) and work can be stressful.
Women are just Better with infants than men are.
Housework is Easier than working in a professional job (not to discredit the enormous importance of managing a house).
Men are Better at working (tend to gravitate towards more inherently lucrative professions and generally Work More and Harder) and I would argue that women are honestly Happier being wives.

Genetics play an big part in who we are. Therefore, who we become should be modelled on the positive attributes of our parents (because they share our genetics). If your father is an engineer then you should go into that field of work. Not only will you be genetically inclined to do well in that profession but you will also have a lot of help and passed-on experience from your father because you should go to the work place with your father. Children are very good at learning. Putting them in 'education' centres where they are dominated is only teaching them how to submit to authority which could only be conceived of as a valuable skill in a fascistic environment (which in of itself is not desirable).
So - after children learn basic skills (reading, writing and social skills - which are consistently reinforced), they should learn job skills.
This means being exposed to the workplace of their representative parent. Boys should learn from their fathers and girls from their mothers. If a child prefers a different profession then that's absolutely fine but they should be - if possible - convinced to do what they're genetically inclined to be good at. If a girl doesn't want to learn how to become a mother and wants to undertake another profession then that's absolutely fine but it should be made clear that if she doesn't become a mother then her genetics will die out, but if she does become pregnant and doesn't invest anything in the raising of her child(ren) (or their environment) then she may be creating some very dysfunctional people who are not going to do well in real life. Once again - her genetics may die out because of an inability to reproduce/prosper due to her child(ren) being undeveloped or dysfunctional i.e. if you create a child and then neglect it (and maybe abuse it - women don't handle stress well and work can be stressful), you are creating a person who will almost certainly become dysfunctional (especially if you add 10+years of 'education' centre to that childhood).
The same can be said for boys. If you don’t get a job then you’ll have probably have no wife and therefore no children. Your genes will probably die out. If you do have a wife who works and you create child, then you’ll probably not do a good job of raising that child or providing it with a positive role model. That child will also not have a mother. If that boy doesn’t become economically competitive then he will probably not have children but if he does then they will probably be dysfunctional or undeveloped.
So - this is how children should ideally be raised, with at much personal freedom as possible where they learn basic literacy, numeracy and social skills, and are then exposed to the workplace of their representative parent (sons for fathers and daughters for mothers) for a few hours every day. Ultimately though, children should interact with other people (mostly children) as much as possible because social skills really are the most important skill that there is. It determines your success socially, how well you can learn, how well you can do in most jobs and - I would argue - how happy you can become because ultimately human being are social animals. Most people aren’t happy being alone.
In addition to our intelligence, we are defined by our exceptional ability to communicate information which is complex and it is this communication which hold markets and societies together and propels them.
'Education' centres damage this ability/desire to communicate (as well as general intelligence and thinking for one's self) by dominating children relentlessly for 30+ hours/week for over 10 years.

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While I agree in principle with what you're saying you really shouldn't put a set time on how long it will take a child, or anyone else for that matter, to learn basic literacy and numeracy. There are those with various physical and learning disabilities after all.

I'd also disagree with your gender stereotyping male and female roles for career and caregiving. While I can agree on the importance of breastfeeding I cannot agree that, or example, housework and managing the home is easier than a full time job. Being a full time parent, be it a mother or father is a full time job. Not to mention all the housework and home maintenance. A man that takes care of his kids is no lesser than a woman. And I've known plenty of capable female career women. (I've also known a couple women who were epic fails as parents. So please don't try to pretend all women are better than men as nurturers.) Being a good Father is just as much an expression of the sacred Masculine as being a warrior or a provider. And being able to go out there and provide is or to fight or your family is just as much an expression as the sacred Feminine as nurturing them. Men and women are different this is true but that doesn't mean one is less than the other. Nor does it mean that we're locked into given roles. Also different families might want to work out different dynamics. So long as there's money coming in and the kids are getting taken care of it works out. Also there's no reason a woman can't have a career and be a mother as well. It's not an either or scenario.

I do heartily agree with interest based learning and children not being socially engineered into any particular career. But neither should they be socially engineered only to associate with a specific gender. If a girl likes trucks she should be free to learn about mechanics and engineering. (And no that doesn't mean she won't become a wonderful mother as well.) And if a boy likes to sew let him learn about how to make clothes and become a tailor. That doesn't mean he's gay. It just means he makes clothes. You've gotta remember pretty much every career we associate with women these days has been performed by men at some point. And yes there have been female soldiers and techies as well. In point of fact we wouldn't have the internet without women. So enough with the gender stereotyping.

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