Comment Re:Not every ADHD sufferer agrees with this statem (Score 1) 864
"I couldn't sit still in class, I couldn't focus, I couldn't pay attention, I couldn't learn. What good is intelligence if one can't manage to focus long enough to learn how to read and write? What good is intelligence or brilliance without an educational foundation and the ability to focus and employ one's abilities?"
It breaks my heart when I read something like this. Of course you could not do these things. Normal humans are not meant to at this age. Sitting still in class is the last thing that we should impell our children to do.
The strength of a school such as Sudbury Valley School ( http://www.sudval.org/ ) is that children are given an environment in which they can learn how to control themselves, and to their own time table. Dr. Daiel Greenberg himself remarked that his son may well have been put on Ritalin if he had gone to a "normal" school bcause the boy was so full of life.
Why are we SO insistant on caging our children at the very age they need to be free to explore?
Those who are interested should consider reading "Free at Last" by D. Greenberg. It may enlightn a facet of out Industrial Society not previously considered.
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It breaks my heart when I read something like this. Of course you could not do these things. Normal humans are not meant to at this age. Sitting still in class is the last thing that we should impell our children to do.
The strength of a school such as Sudbury Valley School ( http://www.sudval.org/ ) is that children are given an environment in which they can learn how to control themselves, and to their own time table. Dr. Daiel Greenberg himself remarked that his son may well have been put on Ritalin if he had gone to a "normal" school bcause the boy was so full of life.
Why are we SO insistant on caging our children at the very age they need to be free to explore?
Those who are interested should consider reading "Free at Last" by D. Greenberg. It may enlightn a facet of out Industrial Society not previously considered.
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