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]]> By: Hugh DeBurgh - The Passionate Warrior http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2010/02/20/is-school-screwing-up-your-child-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Hugh DeBurgh - The Passionate Warrior Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:48:42 +0000 http://thepassionatewarrior.com/?p=929#comment-143 Catrien - Thank you so much for your kind words and your excellent comments. I sometimes wonder if people are ready to hear this stuff. It's like, the emperor has no clothes but nobody notices. And it is so easy to just tell people what they want to hear. But as you clearly realize, this post was written from my heart and my lifelong experience with education and raising children. And you are right, this seems to be a global problem, and "authorities" in many countries, such as Japan, in Latin America, and Germany, for example, do not even want to hear this. But I do not see any way for a modern family, who is not independently wealthy, to live a creative lifestyle built around what really matters to them when their children are required, by law, to be in a certain building for the majority of their young waking lives. So this issue may very well be a critical threshold question for anyone who truly wants to escape the rat race without winning the lottery first. And for anyone who doesn't want their kids traumatized my an antiquated and dysfunctional "educational" system. Thank you again!! Hugh Catrien -

Thank you so much for your kind words and your excellent comments.

I sometimes wonder if people are ready to hear this stuff. It’s like, the emperor has no clothes but nobody notices. And it is so easy to just tell people what they want to hear. But as you clearly realize, this post was written from my heart and my lifelong experience with education and raising children.

And you are right, this seems to be a global problem, and “authorities” in many countries, such as Japan, in Latin America, and Germany, for example, do not even want to hear this.

But I do not see any way for a modern family, who is not independently wealthy, to live a creative lifestyle built around what really matters to them when their children are required, by law, to be in a certain building for the majority of their young waking lives.

So this issue may very well be a critical threshold question for anyone who truly wants to escape the rat race without winning the lottery first. And for anyone who doesn’t want their kids traumatized my an antiquated and dysfunctional “educational” system.

Thank you again!!

Hugh

]]> By: Hugh DeBurgh - The Passionate http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2010/02/20/is-school-screwing-up-your-child-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Hugh DeBurgh - The Passionate Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:48:00 +0000 http://thepassionatewarrior.com/?p=929#comment-543 Catrien - Thank you so much for your kind words and your excellent comments. I sometimes wonder if people are ready to hear this stuff. It's like, the emperor has no clothes but nobody notices. And it is so easy to just tell people what they want to hear. But as you clearly realize, this post was written from my heart and my lifelong experience with education and raising children. And you are right, this seems to be a global problem, and "authorities" in many countries, such as Japan, in Latin America, and Germany, for example, do not even want to hear this. But I do not see any way for a modern family, who is not independently wealthy, to live a creative lifestyle built around what really matters to them when their children are required, by law, to be in a certain building for the majority of their young waking lives. So this issue may very well be a critical threshold question for anyone who truly wants to escape the rat race without winning the lottery first. And for anyone who doesn't want their kids traumatized my an antiquated and dysfunctional "educational" system. Thank you again!! Hugh Catrien -

Thank you so much for your kind words and your excellent comments.

I sometimes wonder if people are ready to hear this stuff. It’s like, the emperor has no clothes but nobody notices. And it is so easy to just tell people what they want to hear. But as you clearly realize, this post was written from my heart and my lifelong experience with education and raising children.

And you are right, this seems to be a global problem, and “authorities” in many countries, such as Japan, in Latin America, and Germany, for example, do not even want to hear this.

But I do not see any way for a modern family, who is not independently wealthy, to live a creative lifestyle built around what really matters to them when their children are required, by law, to be in a certain building for the majority of their young waking lives.

So this issue may very well be a critical threshold question for anyone who truly wants to escape the rat race without winning the lottery first. And for anyone who doesn’t want their kids traumatized my an antiquated and dysfunctional “educational” system.

Thank you again!!

Hugh

]]> By: Catrien Ross http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2010/02/20/is-school-screwing-up-your-child-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Catrien Ross Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:41 +0000 http://thepassionatewarrior.com/?p=929#comment-141 Hugh, from the foot of Mount Fuji again I want to express deepest thanks for the courage and vision you expressed in this two-part post. From my eyes as a foreigner living in Japan the school system and its educational purpose is a crippling nightmare that destroys children as well as family interaction. Nor is home schooling is an allowable option here. The results are showing up in all sorts of horrifying ways that are perplexing parents and so-called education authorities. I have first-hand knowledge of what is happening to children and families because I have also been running a small, homelike, extra-study school in a mountain town for more than 12 years. Is school screwing up the lives of Japanese children? Most definitely. Is it screwing up the lives of Japanese families? Yes. Will there be a move to unscrew the mess? Very unlikely. Americans are so fortunate that they have the choice of deciding what education really means for their children and the family. Your post is a wake-up call that I truly hope will arouse many concerned parents. Thank you for posting about this very important topic. I just posted about the influences that form the world view which creates our negative self-judgment. Culture and the education system play an enormous part in this. Hugh, thank you - Catrien Ross. Hugh, from the foot of Mount Fuji again I want to express deepest thanks for the courage and vision you expressed in this two-part post. From my eyes as a foreigner living in Japan the school system and its educational purpose is a crippling nightmare that destroys children as well as family interaction. Nor is home schooling is an allowable option here. The results are showing up in all sorts of horrifying ways that are perplexing parents and so-called education authorities. I have first-hand knowledge of what is happening to children and families because I have also been running a small, homelike, extra-study school in a mountain town for more than 12 years. Is school screwing up the lives of Japanese children? Most definitely. Is it screwing up the lives of Japanese families? Yes. Will there be a move to unscrew the mess? Very unlikely. Americans are so fortunate that they have the choice of deciding what education really means for their children and the family. Your post is a wake-up call that I truly hope will arouse many concerned parents. Thank you for posting about this very important topic. I just posted about the influences that form the world view which creates our negative self-judgment. Culture and the education system play an enormous part in this. Hugh, thank you – Catrien Ross.

]]> By: Catrien Ross http://thepassionatewarrior.com/2010/02/20/is-school-screwing-up-your-child-part-two/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Catrien Ross Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:00 +0000 http://thepassionatewarrior.com/?p=929#comment-542 Hugh, from the foot of Mount Fuji again I want to express deepest thanks for the courage and vision you expressed in this two-part post. From my eyes as a foreigner living in Japan the school system and its educational purpose is a crippling nightmare that destroys children as well as family interaction. Nor is home schooling is an allowable option here. The results are showing up in all sorts of horrifying ways that are perplexing parents and so-called education authorities. I have first-hand knowledge of what is happening to children and families because I have also been running a small, homelike, extra-study school in a mountain town for more than 12 years. Is school screwing up the lives of Japanese children? Most definitely. Is it screwing up the lives of Japanese families? Yes. Will there be a move to unscrew the mess? Very unlikely. Americans are so fortunate that they have the choice of deciding what education really means for their children and the family. Your post is a wake-up call that I truly hope will arouse many concerned parents. Thank you for posting about this very important topic. I just posted about the influences that form the world view which creates our negative self-judgment. Culture and the education system play an enormous part in this. Hugh, thank you - Catrien Ross. Hugh, from the foot of Mount Fuji again I want to express deepest thanks for the courage and vision you expressed in this two-part post. From my eyes as a foreigner living in Japan the school system and its educational purpose is a crippling nightmare that destroys children as well as family interaction. Nor is home schooling is an allowable option here. The results are showing up in all sorts of horrifying ways that are perplexing parents and so-called education authorities. I have first-hand knowledge of what is happening to children and families because I have also been running a small, homelike, extra-study school in a mountain town for more than 12 years. Is school screwing up the lives of Japanese children? Most definitely. Is it screwing up the lives of Japanese families? Yes. Will there be a move to unscrew the mess? Very unlikely. Americans are so fortunate that they have the choice of deciding what education really means for their children and the family. Your post is a wake-up call that I truly hope will arouse many concerned parents. Thank you for posting about this very important topic. I just posted about the influences that form the world view which creates our negative self-judgment. Culture and the education system play an enormous part in this. Hugh, thank you – Catrien Ross.

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