/lit/ - Literature

>>22117698

>>21506094
I wouldn't trust the Koch Industries shill's spin, but as an anarchist I approve of getting out of the worker-drone factory that is school. I prefer Gatto's perspectives whatever Caplan may say

>>21372192
There's a lot to go over. You need to keep them away from too much electronic media, but also keep your wife away from poisoned food.

Raising them, you show them children their own age and help them connect and play fair with them. A long road.

>>21372194
Wollstonecraft didn't like that
>>21372225
Some think he was exaggerating

>>21360945
There's something systemically wrong about mandatory state schooling. It is a molding device designed to churn out citizen-worker, a dutiful unimaginative cog (at best. At worst as a society crumbles they're left with all sorts of shortages)
We must recreate a hybrid of classical education and make learning a joy. Literature is key. But an array of electronic media also stand in the way. Video games and the like are too readily available. Parents need to step up and not allow too much of these things. No computers for their rooms, till they're a certain age or something.

So while they're young, and not trudging off to school every morning, I see their parents giving them reasonable chores, reasonable amounts of electric entertainments, but also gentle introductions to the wonderful world of reading. Storytelling as well as bedtime should be at least hall of their entertainment. And when the time comes, teach them to read. They'll want to. And in about a week you'll have a reader. Follow up with questions about the books they're reading and what they thought of it. Encourage keeping a journal and/or getting a penpal or something like that.

vtubers/booktubers can fit in there too.

>>21300713
The modern schooling system was built with the industrial factory as a blueprint, to ready and shape children to make perfect factory drones. It also serves as a play pen to dump children in while mothers go to work full time. Divergent thinking is anathema and children have to learn in a systematised conveyor belt fashion. In America for example teaching literacy by phonemes is banned because it gives kids the ability to learn on their own and some of them learn to read far before and at a much better level than others. Compare this with the pre-industrial schoolhouse where usually there was one teacher, several teaching assistants who were graduated students, and a large room with children of all ages learning at their own pace, a system which typically led to far higher and more complete standards of education than we have today.
>age 50–54
Too late, neuroplasticity goes down a lot by then and one's personality is entirely concretised. Mid 20s seems like a good time to go back to intense schooling.