On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:27 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/6/2014 2:37 PM, LizR wrote: > > At least in Western democracies, ISTM that politics and ideologies are in > general kept away from children to a far greater extent than religion is > (in religious households). > > > When I six I learned the U.S. is a democracy. I demanded personal freedom > and vote on when we ate dessert. > > Turns out I lived in a dictatorship. > > Lol, I was slower at that age. Had a problem with fuzzy orders from authorities from day 1, first grade: homework was to color into a photocopied image of school objects, the command was "make it colorful". Obviously, coming from the teacher, and how other kids took this seriously, the whole first day at school ceremonial stuff... I was sure this was a big deal. At home, the difficulty of the task dawned: there are more objects in this drawing than I have colors?! If the problem is "to make as colorful as possible", then I will either have to repeat colors, which just fails at maximizing colors, or I'll have to mix them in such a way that every object features a new original mix of colors. So I sat and paired the objects with different/original colors for each, experimenting with the mixes I'd get from the crayons. When parents told me to go to bed, I informed them that this was serious homework, that I had to complete it, and complete it without their help. I was proud after completing my work, although most objects tended towards original tones of brown, only to find on the next day that all my treacherous classmates had repeated colors to make pretty arrangements. I tried to make my case for teacher approval of my work, only to be brushed aside. My crayon piece did not make it up the wall for exemplary work. Nobody knows about my accomplishment to this day. I really believed in the mission, the authority, the task, the importance of it, fully committed myself and reality still kicked back, the bitch! PGC Brent > > -- > 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.
