It is cyclic, hence a doubly serious concern globally. Nerd I prefer the term ratatouille enthusiast shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt You are completely right about the relation between poverty and overpopulation. Including those who lie below the poverty line. The point is, it is the really poor people that I am going to talk about. These schools, these children, their homes, their families, their backgrounds for a rough idea of the picture think: Slumdog Millionaire. Not only are these schools in a state that varies from poor to horrifically dilapidated, the kids who study here mostly come from the slums. For those who don’t know, government-schools in India represent the poverty-stricken sections, in the cities as well as in the rural areas, although obviously the condition is much worse in the latter. I have visited too many incurious and mediocre physicians who, no doubt, earned ‘A’s in medical school, to be convinced otherwise. I would tend to make sure that my child isn’t placed in a toxic educational environment, whether the school advertises a rigorous curriculum or not. What many people consider a good school might actually be a toxic educational environment, even if the average student in this school achieves comparatively good grades on those dreadful multiple choice, bubble in, high stakes exams.
I don’t accept the idea that schooling and education are the same thing. Obviously, both kinds of kids are at risk in terms of personal fulfillment. Also, often ‘F’ students are only those students who can’t stand being bored. Often ‘A’ students are the children who have conditioned themselves to be inured to tedium. You are taking back the fun that life has stolen from you. The minute the teacher’s head is turned, or the supervisor’s head is turned, you switch to the computer game. Your living strategy then becomes, minimize the learning or work and maximize the fun.
If play is put in one category and learning in the opposite, then who should be surprised to discover that learning, and then work, is associated with something unpleasant you do, after which you reward yourself with fun? Very quickly, as learning becomes associated with unpleasantness that needs to be endured, curiosity becomes collateral damage. Rigor is something to be avoided when it is felt as something that is likely to prove that you are a loser. Rigor is not automatically something that children feel they need to avoid. Kids don’t seem to have much trouble learning the Nerd I prefer the term ratatouille enthusiast shirt What’s more,I will buy this rigor that is part of being on a high school football team.