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> The schooling system, with its grades, signed slips, and whatnot, is set up through extrinsic motivation to teach obedience, conformity, and smothering the in
by cameronbrown 6y ago
> The schooling system, with its grades, signed slips, and whatnot, is set up through extrinsic motivation to teach obedience, conformity, and smothering the intrinsic drive so necessary for the creative work we will expect from the children later in life.
As a teen, I think I would've agreed with you on this, but looking back personally, I think boundaries inspired my creativity to break out of them.
- boundaries99 6y agoBoundaries are intrinsic for kids with no life experience. Obedience to hierarchy around stuff collecting is extrinsic. One must learn facts and emotional character to tell grandpa go away. We’re far to servile to decades old delusions of grandeur. Extreme ownership of social agency by one circular meme isn’t good enough.