Young children would rather explore than get rewards

Re:Young children would rather explore than get rewards by cameronbrown on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:36AM (#24143757)

> The schooling system, with its grades, signed slips, and whatnot, is set up through extrinsic motivation to teach obedience, conformity, and smothering the intrinsic drive so necessary for the creative work we will expect from the children later in life.

As a teen, I think I would've agreed with you on this, but looking back personally, I think boundaries inspired my creativity to break out of them.

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Re:Young children would rather explore than get rewards by boundaries99 on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:47AM (#24143864)

Boundaries are intrinsic for kids with no life experience.

Obedience to hierarchy around stuff collecting is extrinsic.

One must learn facts and emotional character to tell grandpa go away.

We’re far to servile to decades old delusions of grandeur.

Extreme ownership of social agency by one circular meme isn’t good enough.

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