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> Mandatory service for [...] building empathy I understand your thought-process here, but I'll say it really doesn't work out like that in-practice. E.g. man
by DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> Mandatory service for [...] building empathy
I understand your thought-process here, but I'll say it really doesn't work out like that in-practice.
E.g. mandatory schooling certainly didn't make me build-up empathy for teachers and institutions, it had quite the opposite effect in my case.
- unethical_ban 2y agoI wonder how one can experience public schooling (20 years ago or now) and not have sympathy for the struggles of teachers.
- DaiPlusPlus 2y agoOh, in retrospect/hindsight, absolutely. But in-person, when you’re on the spectrum, in the 1990s, when the senior staff put their stock in discipline - not understanding - does not build empathy on either side.
- unethical_ban 2y agoFair. Heh, I remember being a distraction and being put in the back of the class. And when I finished tasks quicker than others, I couldn't be quiet. I was put in the hallway to do base 5 math in 3rd grade.
- mock-possum 2y agoUntil you finish highschool teachers and school staff are your jailers not to put too fine a point on it… so that doesn’t exactly foster empathy. Being friends with educators as an adult has made me a lot more sympathetic to school teachers than my own public school experience ever did. College helped too