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 /VIEW-IMAGE/$File/view-image.png "Image information"){kind=small} They are bored because the things they are given to do are so trivial, so dull and make such limited and narrow demands on the wide spectrum of their intelligence, capabilities and talents. They are confused because most of the torrent of words that pours over them in school makes little or no sense. It often flatly contradicts other things they have been told, and hardly ever has any real relation to what they know - to the rough model of reality that they carry around in their minds. From the forward of the book How Children Fail by John Holt. This was written in 1964 but to a great degree I believe the argument still holds true today.
Blog Post  Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory SchoolingGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 27 March 2002 Thoughts on SchoolingPosted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 26 May 2004 Low-Cost Laptops for Kids in NeedGurteen Knowledge-Log, David Gurteen, 5 April 2005 Book  Breaking Down the wall of Silence (1992) by Alice MillerTo Join the Waiting Child How Children Fail (1964) by John Holt How Children Learn (1967) by John Holt Punished by Rewards (Sep 1999) by Alfie KohnThe Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes The Continuum Concept by Jean LiedloffIn Search of Happiness Lost The Drama of Being a Child (1987) by Alice MillerAnd the Search for the True Self Unconditional Parenting (Mar 2005) by Alfie KohnMoving from Rewards and Punishment to Love and Reason Category  Children [32 items]Document Helping Children Prepare for their Work FutureAn Interview with Jo Singel by David Gurteen Link The Dangers of Media ViolenceArticle by Karl Wigg The Liedloff Continuum NetworkPerson  Alice Miller Psychotherapist Jean Liedloff Author Jo Singel John Holt (1923 - 1985) American EducatorPoem Kahlil Gibran On Children by Kahlil GibranQuotation  On being shut up in schools by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) American Essayist & Poet On children and learning by John Holt (1923 - 1985) American Educator On classroom defeat by Joseph Wax  On destroying the love of learning in children by Alfie Kohn Author, Speaker & Educator On teachers and delusion by John Holt (1923 - 1985) American Educator On the curious child by John Holt (1923 - 1985) American Educator On the intelligence of a child. by Sigmund Freud (1865 - 1939) Austrian Psychologist On trying to force a child by John Holt (1923 - 1985) American Educator Our own system of trying to guess ... by Jean Liedloff Author
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