Comment Re:Kids should learn never to be bored (Score 1) 543
"Kids should learn never to be bored"? Why, so they can be trained for boring adult jobs? What about empowering kids, so they *don't* have to go to boring schools, listen to boring lectures where the teacher is taking an hour to explain something that they can understand in fifteen seconds?
I'm an adult. I don't have to be bored, because in a boring situation I can leave and go find something interesting to do, or I can decide that the temporary boredom is worth it for whatever goal I might be trying to achieve. Captive kids in jail^H^H^H^H^H school don't have that choice.
My mother has been known, even now, to give what I call the "Transforming Power of Boredom" lecture, where she explains how useful it was for me to have been bored for 13 years in public school. Well, it did transform me. It transformed me into someone who hates schools and believes that there should be alteratives available. Schools, and high schools in particular, are ridiculous institutions that should be abolished and replaced with places where people can voluntarily learn.
I'm an adult. I don't have to be bored, because in a boring situation I can leave and go find something interesting to do, or I can decide that the temporary boredom is worth it for whatever goal I might be trying to achieve. Captive kids in jail^H^H^H^H^H school don't have that choice.
My mother has been known, even now, to give what I call the "Transforming Power of Boredom" lecture, where she explains how useful it was for me to have been bored for 13 years in public school. Well, it did transform me. It transformed me into someone who hates schools and believes that there should be alteratives available. Schools, and high schools in particular, are ridiculous institutions that should be abolished and replaced with places where people can voluntarily learn.
