Hey, I work with a LOT of Swedes. I'm not convinced you guys are normal either...
(But yeah, I agree with you)
It isn't healthy to be to normal you know.
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Hey, I work with a LOT of Swedes. I'm not convinced you guys are normal either...
(But yeah, I agree with you)
I've found this entire thread to be confusing. I can't quite tell who's being sarcastic and when. Maybe no one is being sarcastic? Could that be?
Are people actually arguing that fear, pain, shame, and public humiliation are society's best ideas for helping children become healthy, happy, contributing adults?
:no: :no: :no:
I recall Stephen Hawking describing how uncool it was to work hard in his group
at school. So he coasted until ALS altered his perspective on life. Then he
turned things around. I notice athletes often being pressured to avoid looking
like bookish nerds. I also recall in grade school how some black kids were dissed
for the same cuz it was "acting white". People is a mess.
It's too bad that you never did recover from such substandard schooling.The culture at the school I went to didn't reward high academic achievement. Majority of kids weren't aiming to go to college. And from a teaching point of view, the bar naturally dropped. Rather than pushing me as far as I could go, I was seen as doing well just because it was better than many others there.
I wasn't mature enough at that age to simply ignore everything and forge my own path.
It's too bad that you never did recover from such substandard schooling.
You could've been edumacatered like me!
You have my condolences for enduring such a low fate.Exactly. It was so traumatic I ended up being a teacher...