One of the common concerns critics of unschooling have... But sometimes you gotta do stuff you dont like and how will they learn to do stuff they dont like if we dont make them do stuff they dont like? Whether or not you actually *have to* keeping doing a bunch of stuff you dont like when you grow up is another matter, but regardless, read until the end... ...developmentally inappropriate education has become the norm, as kindergarten (literally, the “children’s garden”) now tends to resemble a first- or second-grade classroom — in fact, a bad first- or second-grade classroom, where discovery, creativity, and social interaction are replaced by a repetitive regimen focused on narrowly defined academic skills. More generally, premature exposure to sit-still-and-listen instruction, homework, grades, tests, and competition — practices that are clearly a bad match for younger children and of questionable value at any age — is rationalized by invoking a notion I’ve called BGUTI: Better Get Used To It. The logic here is that we have to prepare you for the bad things that are going to be done to you later . . . by doing them to you now. When articulated explicitly, that principle sounds exactly as ridiculous as it is. Nevertheless, it’s the engine that continues to drive an awful lot of nonsense.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:56:41 +0000
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