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Fish Person |
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Schools ,Religious Study,Love,
Posted by: Neo |
| Date: |
22-Mar-2001-02:14:48 |
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a more radical suggestion... |
...would be that we abolish the institution of high school--that
is, the institution of adolescence--entirely.
Adolescence is a somewhat new concept historically speaking--
when human lives were shorter, they went straight from being
children to adults without an intermediate phase lasting years.
We've created--perhaps because the adults are reluctant to
relinquish their power to the next generation--a long period of
frustration for young people where they are physically adults
and yet are deemed not mature enough to take their place as
full-fledged citizens. It's no wonder that some of them respond
in dysfunctional ways.
The period of adolescence extends not just through high school
(the teens), but often well into the twenties and even thirties
for people who pursue college and advance professional training.
There was recently an urban legend that Larry Ellison addressed
the graduates of Yale University and dismissed them all as
"losers" without hope because they were already spoiled by having
gotten a university degree. The real winners--which included
Ellison, rival Bill Gates, and other ultra-rich folks--were smart
enough to have dropped out of college.
It was just an urban myth but there is some truth in all satire,
and it is interesting that many of the most successful people
in the world were smart enough to cut short their prolonged,
enforced adolescence. Many Rama students dropped out of college
too, opting for less time-consuming certificate programs
especially if they were a long ways away from their degrees.
Rama didn't accept high school kids as students because of the
legal risks involved, but if he had it wouldn't have surprised
me if some of them had dropped out as well.
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