June 6, 2006
Modern Education's Results
Phi Beta Cons has another good post about the self-hatred being inculcated in out public schools and our modern society, leading to self-abuse.
AP:CHICAGO - Nearly 1 in 5 students at two Ivy League schools say they have purposely injured themselves by cutting, burning or other methods, a disturbing phenomenon that psychologists say they are hearing about more often.
For some young people, self-abuse is an extreme coping mechanism that seems to help relieve stress; for others it's a way to make deep emotional wounds more visible.
The results of the survey at Cornell and Princeton are similar to other estimates on this frightening behavior. Counselors say it's happening at colleges, high schools and middle schools across the country.
Remember what SPS said about "racism?" They defined it to be a universal characteristic of "whites," inherent in their very being. Teaching children that they are racist by nature is teaching them that they are guilty of sin and evil by nature. Guilt leads to punishment.
Besides that, individual thought is stamped out in modern education; belonging to a group is taught as normal and natural. Individuality is abnormal. That breed self-distrust and self-hatred. The "be yourself" crap taught in schools goes only skin deep. "Love yourself" is a euphemism for accepting and valuing your psychological problems.
Besides that, reasoning is stamped out, too. There is a major absence of method and hierarchy in schools. Education occurs on a perceptual level, but when it rises to the conceptual level, it is only to the level of an arrested, stunted mind. Teaching is compartmentalized, lacking in connections, and does not build upon itself systematically.
Children are drugged up because of alleged "learning difficulties." Many "learning difficulties," are in fact, system-generated: students are so damn bored and have their minds so systematically attacked, they cannot learn. And so they turn against education and become problem students. Been there, seen that.
Education Posted by Cyrano at June 6, 2006 10:27 AM
This self-abuse thing is completely foreign to me, although I have known children who resorted to it. Cyrano's analysis of the cause is, I think, exactly right.
Human beings, as rational animals, are born with the innate ability and need to reconcile all they know. When they are taught ideas that contradict their knowledge of reality, something's gotta give. Without dependable rational adults to help resolve the error the resulting conflict often renders the child's brain into the same state as that of the android "Norman" in the famous Star Trek episode "I, Mudd." (The logically contradictory loop initiated by the statement, "Everything I say is a lie" causes Norman's "brain" to overload and fail.) http://www.ericweisstein.com/fun/startrek/IMudd.html
Cyrano has revealed the single most important factor in the continued excellence of western thought, or even it's very survival: Our children must be taught to reason and to discern balderdash from reality.
Al Gore serves as an excellent contemporary case study.
Posted by: johngalt at June 6, 2006 2:58 PM | What do you think? [1]