Monday 23 July 2012

IT"S ALMOST OVER! TOO MUCH COMPETITION!

How can teachers help students whose minds are too jittery to concentrate? Slug them down with medication, you say? Nope. Counter-productive. Drugging kids down so that they can "focus"(ha) on only one thing, stiffles creativity and critical thinking skills. But all of that is irrelevant, really, because the days of teachers teaching lasting knowledge is almost a thing of the past. When young people from pre-school age through college consume a steady diet of comedy, cruelty, sadism, masochism, sexual perversion,fantasy, science fiction, propaganda and pure hype they will never settle down to the calm learning of the old classroom. You can watch them sitting in the classroom, twitching, stroking themselves, staring, making erratic movements, their minds on tunes, movies, games and parties. The learning environment is already gone! Soon you can read about it in the history books. Have you been in a public or parochial school classroom lately? Have you walked down the halls of the local school and heard the noise, seen kids sleeping, yelling at the teachers, acting out their favorite shows or music, texting in their pockets? There is no such thing as a learning environment anymore. Parents feed kids a steady diet of entertainment, or should I say perpetual immaturity, always seeking the next new thing to keep them from getting bored. They do this for twenty-plus years and then expect them to push a button and become responsible. Well guess what, it's not working. We now have several generations of self-indulgent,entertainment-seekers who are "perpetually imature"! Hedonistic parents are raising hedonistic kids and the "focus" is NOT on education or productivity or making the best use of what God has endowed them with. Who is He anyway? It's about where the next big thrill is coming from. So school is out, a thing only to be endured. Sad part is, neither the law or the government can do nothing about it. As a matter of fact, they have hastened the process by their extremely low standards and their new fix-alls each year. In all honesty this is where we are. Maybe a few more years to try and salvage a few kids with the inner drive to learn positive, charitable things. But there is very little evidence today of self-disciplined kids who really want to learn. For those who realize that they are really behind and want to do something about it - THEY STILL CAN - but they are so used to mommy and daddy making excuses for them that most won't.