Re:Many Japanese children refuse to go to school
by coldtea on Monday December 23, 2019 @08:03PM
(#21869005)
>School is an upgrade from child labor, but I now have enough experience to know it's a downgrade from what I can learn of my own.
Is it? I'd bet most kids, left to their own devices, they'd eat fast food, watch cartoons, and play games all day, and not learn anything...
>Also, I don't miss having to fight for social acceptance, the bullying, the stress and pressure nor the hypocrisy of the ones in charge.
Aren't these the basic things school teaches? Socialization?
People aren't all kind lovable beings, nor are situations non adversarial in life.
From this there's retreat to isolation from life (e.g. like those Japanese who refuse to exit their homes), or learning how others can be, how you can respond, how to make friends, win over enemies, ignore or defeat people who try to put you down, etc. Tertium non datur.
Is it? I'd bet most kids, left to their own devices, they'd eat fast food, watch cartoons, and play games all day, and not learn anything...
>Also, I don't miss having to fight for social acceptance, the bullying, the stress and pressure nor the hypocrisy of the ones in charge.
Aren't these the basic things school teaches? Socialization?
People aren't all kind lovable beings, nor are situations non adversarial in life.
From this there's retreat to isolation from life (e.g. like those Japanese who refuse to exit their homes), or learning how others can be, how you can respond, how to make friends, win over enemies, ignore or defeat people who try to put you down, etc. Tertium non datur.