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The playground apparatus here is just a symbol of how the
system has diluted the need for individuals to excel and come out on top of the
heap. I think the idea of this toy is to not have them play a competitive game
with a possible winner and a possible loser. If a ball goes in over the top it
will come out of one of those 3 holes and I guess is supposed to support
sharing.
Well the reality in life is that there are winners and
losers in everything and sharing is a choice thing and should not be mandatory.
We used to play pickup road hockey for hours and the score would be like 125 –
122 when we had to go home for supper and no one cared. We decided how to
change the teams up to make it a little fairer and thus we learned how to
negotiate on that playing field and no one got upset.
The teaching profession that wants to homogenize the system
in such a manner that the cream does not rise to the top is failing the entire
future of our culture. But not to worry, those that have the penchant to excel
will find a way once they get away from this neutralizing method of teaching.
Sadly, the ones that lose out are the average and above average that can learn
how to do better with proper coaching. Those that don’t try will always fail
and it seems that is OK by these new standards. Those that don’t try still pass
today but that teaches them nothing useful.
All I can say is thank you to all my teachers that pushed me
to do better because you were right to do that. I hope the Mr. and Mrs.
Milktoasts of today’s teaching profession retire soon and make way for a new
breed of “Get It Done Better” and “Seek to Excel” because that is doing the
student justice.
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