RE: What happened to education.? Pt 2 Going raw
Brains don't finish developing until your mid 20s. That's when your prefrontal cortex finishes up. So really, the arbitrary "adult" ages various governments impose are all wrong. In today's world where life spans are getting longer and longer, we should really count "adulthood" at 25 - that's the biological truth! But I digress.
I am all for rewilding and more natural learning and none of this whitewashed, nationalistic propaganda bullshit we call schooling, but I also know damn well that some people do even worse by the kids and indoctrinate them into Christian extremist cults and call it "religious freedom" and "homeschooling" (see: the quiverfull movement). Then there are parents who can't teach, either because they're working, have life issues that interfere, or just don't care. So we need some protection for the first group of kids, and resources for the second, but I don't know what the solution is to freeing up kids and not indoctrinating them, but realizing that some kids would be worse off with no traditional school to go to. I feel like if capitalism was abolished, people who love to teach would teach, a lot of bad actors and reasons for propaganda would disappear, and people would truly have school choice, but that's not likely to happen very soon!
Truth. It’s a huge complicated problem. I was once naive enough to believe that unschooling was the answer but then I had to face reality and the very issues you just brought up. Many people don’t even want something different. They’ve accepted the mainstream idea of what education means.
Indeed its a complex issue and religion makes it even more complex for sure. This is why I think facilitators rather than teachers and more freedom in the school to pick the subject and to researching freely is the best options. But then you into the forcing kids to go to school at very young ages i mean four is ridiculous. In turn this create a negative view of it kids should be playing, exploring and having fun 💯🐒
I started school at three. Neither of my siblings started before five. I presume it's because I learned to read on my own when I was three. It was an "aha" moment and for a while I was entertainment for any guests:
"Get out the dictionary and ask the three year old to read the biggest word."
"Antidisestablishmentarianism."
"Do you even know what that means?"
"No, let me read the definition."
They didn't know what to do with me, so they sent me to preschool. But of course, nobody said, let's put the three year old in with literate kids, so I sat through years of other kids learning to read.
See this is what I mean your experience was a waste you should have been able to progress quicker. The one size fits all just does not work 💯🐒
Nope, it sure does not.