Where Did We Go Wrong?

March 23, 2009

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We are living in a world where parents work very hard and are often not with their kids for most of the day. Children spend much of their time in front of TV or computer screens and are essentially getting their values from society and not from their parents. Apparently, the kids are not too thrilled with this state of affairs.  

How did we end up in this unpleasant situation? Fifty years ago we were taught in school that in fifty years parents will have much more time to spend with their children, because they will have so much spare time on their hands. In those days parents worked eight or nine hours a day and thought that they would eventually cut down to five or six hours a day; that more time would be devoted to the family, to education, to culture, and building the child’s personality. 

They also spoke of a change in child education, that it would be more interesting, integrate more examples, that they would take groups of children to an airport for example and all sorts of interesting places and allow them to come face to face with the richness of society.  

Those fifty years have gone by and what have we done? We work for longer hours, the family unit is disintegrating, the father does not want anything to do with the mother, there is no connection between parents, the children are disconnected from the parents and even their grandparents. The only means of communication they have, the internet and TV, completely isolate them from their parents, and they do not receive their education in school but rather from many other types of sources. 

As we can see, school is not intended to provide a person with an education and build him. There is not some special character that we expect to see upon a child graduating, but simply that he received a basic education, to prepare him somewhat for a profession he will learn in the future. After completing their studies every child will make a living according to their character, and a lot is left to chance. No one is talking about the “person” that has to come straight out of the oven with a whole collection of values and tendencies.

 

Posted by wisdom of school | Filed Under The Problem 

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