Amargith
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http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play/
The article brings up some *very* valid points, imho, about whether the education of children is in fact hampering their abilities to deal with the reality in front of them after school. Loss of creativity, social skills, learning how to deal with ones own emotions, freedom from the pressure to non stop do what *others* tell you you should do, working out how to navigate life and the other players in it, and so on. All those things are being replaced because play is considered frivolous; yet it is how any young from any species learns the tools it needs to survive. Are you really prepping the young generation with the rigid diet of facts and q and a that we feed them today? That's what this article examines
The article brings up some *very* valid points, imho, about whether the education of children is in fact hampering their abilities to deal with the reality in front of them after school. Loss of creativity, social skills, learning how to deal with ones own emotions, freedom from the pressure to non stop do what *others* tell you you should do, working out how to navigate life and the other players in it, and so on. All those things are being replaced because play is considered frivolous; yet it is how any young from any species learns the tools it needs to survive. Are you really prepping the young generation with the rigid diet of facts and q and a that we feed them today? That's what this article examines