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- JLarmor is a 25 year old guy from New York, USA.
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the push forward is the complete inability to be content where we are, when we are.
Impatience is life, progress and the sunset.
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Richard J. Maybury lists the six characteristics that an "illiteracy mill" would have to have.
Summarized as follows:
Curiosity is spontaneous and must be suppressed. Prohibit spontaneity and regiment learning so that children are taught things when the system decides, not when they want to learn them.
Remove children from the adult world so that they are deprived of role models, and cannot learn by copying adults.
Enact child labour laws so that anyone trying to escape from the illiteracy mill has nowhere else to go. No apprenticeship system means they won't be able to learn a trade by copying adults.
Force children by law to attend, thereby making learning a job, a chore, an obligation; definitely not fun. Supplant curiosity by drudgery. Prison dulls the mind.
Coercing the children also helps wipe out the teacher's desire to teach. It creates massive problems of motivation and discipline. Teachers commonly quit after a few years of attempting to combine the roles of entertainer and enforcer in an effort to get something done.
Last but not least, everyone should be forced to pay for the mill no matter what their mill does to children's minds. And there are no refunds. If a child comes out of the system with his brain turned to mush, the parents should still be forced to pay, every year for the rest of their lives
To understand human language, we need to place ourselves within the context of Earth as a self-organizing reality. The Earth taught itself how to create the photosynthetic processes, how to bloom forth with the power of the angiosperms, how to create topsoil; Earth did not learn these things from Mars or the Andromeda Galaxy. Earth education is self-education.
Humans are engaged in the same dynamic of self-educating reality. So, here we sit, talking, a further development of the ancient Earth activity of education. Our situation involves something new - self-reflexion - manifested especially through language, but language itself is just a part of a larger teaching process. We sit, talking, engaged in the education process of the Earth.
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