On Saturday 12 February, ilya_shambat2004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote in
rec.arts.poems:
> It is my firm belief that it is absolutely necessary that schools,
> along with mathematics and writing, should teach communication.
> The prevalent idea on the subject is that such tasks should be
> relegated to families. The problem with that is of course that the vast
> majority of families do not know how to communicate. They may
> understand one or another aspect, or they may understand nothing about
> the subject whatsoever and communicate with threats, insults and fists.
> To leave this task to the families is to allow perpetuation, through
> generations, of all the errors and falsehoods and ignorance that lives
> in families worldwide - and entrapping the world under these vices.
> Another idea on the subject is that such tasks people should pick up
> naturally by dealing with "peers." Given the sheer cruelty, pettiness
> and hideousness of the student culture of most high schools, the skills
> learned in this manner essentially teach kids to be bastards. This is
> hardly the mechanism for making constructive, happy, good-hearted, wise
> citizenry, and indeed the growing number of people who home-school
> their children instead of exposing them to such hideous nastiness do
> America (and their kids) a great favor.
> Nor is it enough to teach communication in colleges. Most people around
> the world (and in America) do not go to college, and all of them have
> to face life, college education or not. For most people to be ignorant
> of communication, is to consign them to misery in all aspects of
> human existence, from work to relation****ps to family life. And that is
> by far the worst fate that a person can have.
> Communication allows people to solve problems; to understand where each
> other is coming from; to relate in a way that is informed, constructive
> and intelligent and ultimately satisfying and productive. It allows
> people to come to a mutual understanding and come up with solutions
> that work for everyone involved. It allows people to have compassion
> and understanding of those in their life. And that, is the secret to
> happy existence.
> The families with bad communication live miserable existence -
> existence that turns oppressive, controlling, destructive and hideous;
> existence in which people see each other as evil rather than simply
> misinformed and use cruelty and oppression to feed racket anger and
> evil attitudes; existence for whose misery the people involved blame
> good things (like love and beauty and romance and even human condition)
> instead of standing up to the plate and admitting honestly that they
> don't know how to make such things work for them - the admission which
> can be followed by correction and learning the skills they need to be
> effective and happy in work and in love.
> A fair number of psychologists understand this and make an effort to
> teach the appropriate skills to their clients. However, an ounce of
> prevention is a pound of cure; and teaching the appropriate skills in
> primary education will take far less money and effort than it takes to
> teach such things in $100-per-hour therapy sessions - sessions that
> teach one person what someone could teach 20 persons in school with the
> same resource expenditure. The money that lines the pockets of
> psychiatrists could go to far greater use in preventing the kinds of
> problems that psychiatrists deal with in clients.
> Ilya Shambat.
I hereby nominate Ilya Shambat for Usenet Kook of the Month. His
screed makes him a worthy rival to Herc, and it would be fun to try to
guess which of the two might win. Any seconds?
PJR :-)
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