Hi Kim, Glad you enjoyed it.
I agree with everything you say. I think the cage is very complex and hard to break out of. Life is increasingly formatted. I believe this results from social norms, the militaristic schooling system and the job/growth economic mentality, all connected in a vicious cycle. More and more, we can only act under permission. This creates survival anxiety, which in turn lead people to reject education as a goal in itself and seeing it only as one of the hoops they have to jump through to obtain permission to survive. I observe this mentality spreading to earlier stages of education, which is quite sad. Instead of motivating kids to learn for pleasure, out of pure curiosity and a desire for personal development, we try to make them fear the future. Then it's not so surprising that we live in a world ruled by fear instead of freedom. Global surveillance is the most recent metastization of this cancer. But Roger Waters says it better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_S-Y199lRM Have a nice weekend! Telmo. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Much appreciated Telmo. What this highlights is something I've always felt > very strongly and that is the role of education in helping people to deal > with their urges and their impulses. Unfortunately education simply toes > the political line of prohibitionism. This for me is one of the saddest > things about our society. There is only really one chance for people to > come to grips with what life is all about and that happens early in life, > during the school years, in fact. There can be no denying that for some > people life is experienced as a cage and for others it is a park or > playground. Most humans start school believing in the playground theory of > existence and many have abandoned that for the cage theory of existence by > the end of their schooling. I firmly believe that the scene is set for > these kind of choices during school. > > Kim > > Kim Jones B. Mus. GDTL > > Email: [email protected] > [email protected] > Mobile: 0450 963 719 > Phone: 02 93894239 > Web: http://www.eportfolio.kmjcommp.com > > > *"Never let your schooling get in the way of your education" - Mark Twain* > > > > On 14 May 2014, at 11:22 pm, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
