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Janice Campbell
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Fictional Learning - Children Are Simply Not Needed We have developed a culture [John Gatto argues in The Underground History of American Education that we did not develop this culture, but it was imposed on us by 'experts' with different motives from ours] in which children are just not needed. Our educational system is, in a very real way, not much more than one giant daycare center from pre-K to graduation from college. [As crazy as it sounds, you can get a degree in teaching in our world without ever once carrying the reality of a real classroom, and you can even get a Masters in Business Administration without ever once starting your own business! This is absurd, I know, but there it is.] We do not need children. They are in the way and something must be done with them. Children are not necessary for our economic lives. We don't need them to get the food on the table or to provide shelter or to help defend the village. At no point in a child's education are they directly involved in helping their fathers or other neighborhood adults to accomplish necessary life tasks. When school is not in session, the child hangs around, in the way and underfoot. Because he is not needed, he spends hours on video games, etc. The father, walking through the home, sees the son wasting hours of time and is angry and frustrated, because he knows something is not right. The son, knowing he is not needed, doesn't know what to do about it and so all that is left is argument. This is the culture we have created for our children. We tell them over and over, "You're getting an education. You will need all this SOMEDAY!" But that is a pabulum, a sleight of hand, designed to hide the grisly reality that the child is not in any way needed today. And deep down, every child knows this is true. Every child knows that their parents and the world in which they live do not need them. And so, to occupy the worthless hours of our children's lives, we create a very expensive fictional environment where our children will be baby sat and their hours occupied by constructed activities we call 'learning.' Activities that benefit no one and are thrown away as soon as they are done. And the real lesson the child learns? How to endure a deep sense of uselessness in a context of mind-numbing boredom and to convince one's self that this as all for the 'real life' someday. Listen, the kids that cannot cope with the sense of uselessness and the unending boredom we require of them are the ones that we either drug, or they drug themselves, either way, they are the ones who end up in the disciplinary units of modern education. I've been there; I've worked with them; I've seen their complete inability to cope with the senselessness we force them to endure. What a travesty. Help your child build his or her own business with Micro-Business for HighSchoolers, a nine month course that guides step-by-step in the creation of a real-world business, while learning a whole lot. This course could easily become a central part of your child's high school education. Check it out at http://www.YguideAcademy.com/MicroBusiness.html Copyright 2009 by YGuide Publishing. Freely use without changes, including links. http://www.yguide.org Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Daniel_Yordy
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