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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: The use of '-type'
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 19:31:48 EDT
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> The whole purpose of educating children is so that they will gradually
> become the type of person that will fit well into society -- i.e. to
> be able to earn a living and associate in normal ways with other people,
> according to society's norms and standards.  The idea that each one of
> us should develop our own behaviors independently of what society expects
> is pure bunk. [SILBERMANN]

That's funy.  I always thought it was the idea that we were "supposed" to
fit in to roles imposed upon us and not express our individuality that was
(and is) PURE BUNK.  

You're right though.  The whole purpose of THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF EDUCATING
CHILDREN is to fit them into boxes that will enable them to "perform well
in society".  Along the way, over the past n000 years, somebody lost sight
of the fact that the society exists to serve the needs of the individual,
not the other way around.  (If you doubt this, apply my old test:  if the
society somehow decided that its purposes would be better served if it got
rid of all the people in the society so that things would "run better",
what would you have left?  I think that serves as evidence of the order of
priorities.)

> Some of us, for whatever reason, came out of childhood as misfits.
> We can choose to remain misfits and make the best of it, accepting
> society's punishments, or we can re-educate ourselves and redo whatever
> went wrong in our childhood.
> Changing oneself is a terribly difficult and frustrating process.

Ahem...
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr