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In the education/upbringing of children, it is a long known fact, that you will get what you expect. Tell a child, that it will fail over and over again, you w
by PythonicAlpha 11y ago
In the education/upbringing of children, it is a long known fact, that you will get what you expect.
Tell a child, that it will fail over and over again, you will most likely get a failure. Tell a similar child from its birth over and over again that it will be a winner, you will get a person that is much more likely a winner than the other person.
The US society today trains failures. It starts by being born in the wrong district of a city or belonging to the wrong race. When in such a case, you have no good family (eg. single mother), you have all odds against you. It goes on, by visiting the wrong school ...
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoWhile I was at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington I puzzled over why so many of my fellow patients acted so childlike. For example when we waited in line for our meals, it was just like schoolchildren waiting in line, asking each other to hold their places while they stepped out, or saying "No cuts!" This was even the case among aged grandmothers. I very quickly realized that it was largely due to the way we were treated by the staff. For example if one refused to take one's medicine in the morning, one would not be permitted to smoke cigarettes in the exercise yard that day. If one refused in the evening, one would not be permitted a root beer float. At no point did any of the hospital staff explain to any of use WHY we were taking that medicine. It is far, far more important for the mentally ill to know why we take medicine, than it is for us to actually take it at all. If you treat someone like a child they will act like a child.