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I would suggest that it fundamentally cannot keep up. In the olden days you would start working on the family farm as soon as you were old enough to walk. This
by randomdata 8y ago
I would suggest that it fundamentally cannot keep up.
In the olden days you would start working on the family farm as soon as you were old enough to walk. This is where the life lessons were learned. Schooling was meant only to broaden horizons into more theoretical subjects that were not directly applicable to every day life.
But with our newfound fear of having children work every so often (to the point that is illegal for most children to work; children of farmers working on the family farm remaining one of the few exceptions), they no longer have a place to learn about everyday life. They only get the theoretical, and it ends there. Then, in their 20s, they're spit out into the real world and all of a sudden have to figure out the life lessons that were once given over the span of decades under the guidance of a caregiver.
We have attempted to try to bring practical lessons to school, but as anyone who is an adult knows, there is simply no replacement for actual experience. Everything you think you have learned about it ends up being completely different once you live it.
- watwut 8y agoI think that you are idealzing a bit outcomes of children in the past. They had their own set if problems - including higher violence and criminality rates and alcoholism etc.
- randomdata 8y agoViolence and crime rates are down due to the reduce use of lead in gasoline. Alcoholism seems to be down due to much greater difficulty in being able to drink (can't drive the bar anymore without fear of stiff penalties) and greater information. But I don't think I am idealizing anything. The benefits of having a job when you are young are abundantly clear, and remain abundantly clear for those who still do so today. There is no reason why children cannot work and also have pursuits that are useful in other areas. It is not an either-or situation. They do not need to be full-time jobs. There is plenty of time for other pursuits.
- watwut 8y agoI had job as teenager. There was no obvious long term benefit and no short term benefit except a bit money more. It did not harmed me either except being unable to do certain activities I wanted to (which would gabe me more back then, but not more enough to regret it too much). You can't explain all past farms violence by lead, that explains violence peek in 1990. The past rural situations and societiés in general were not nearly as idyllic as people make them be.
- notabee 8y agoThere used to be more shop and home economics style classes to teach practical skills. Not everyone has parents with similar knowledge to pass on even about very practical things, and making that sort of education available could help a great deal. Many come from families so dysfunctional, in fact, that school might be their only opportunity to escape learning many adverse habits. What also could help would be more open ended research projects that aren't rigidly structured but instead teach the student how to pick up new skills for themselves. I continue to find it astonishing that in a time where you can learn how to fix most simple things on Youtube that many younger people still flounder when faced with a novel task.