Work........……….EVOLVING.........

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   gmwilliamsposted 6 years ago

   
   How can we teach our children to explore work that is INTERESTING & SATISFYING?  How can we encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of our children to CREATE work?  How can we as adults find work that is FUN & FULFILLS our PURPOSE?  How can we go beyond the mundane definition of work?

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      Kathryn L Hillposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      How can we allow kids to even FIND what INTERESTS them. Here is a good idea: GIVE THEM PERMISSION!

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         gmwilliamsposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         Yes, guide & nurture their interests.  Expose them to as much cultural & intellectual interests as possible.  I would like to add this.  Highly educated & affluent parents have the access to do this.  Also, such parents are more likely to do this.  Less educated & poorer parents don't have such tools so their children are at a ……………..DISTANT disadvantage!

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 6 years ago

   well, I will tell you ... of course. Here I am, the "child expert." The child expert who no one will listen to or even try to comprehend. A substitute teacher who can't bear to be in the classrooms of public schools because of the machine behind the public schools, which turns kids into Drug-Taking, Technology-Addicted, Bored-Out-of-Their-Minds, ZOMBIES!
   
   
   The topic is so deep and convoluted, I can't even talk about it.
   It really has to do with the the way we teach people in the western world. It has been wrong for eons of time.

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      gmwilliamsposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      +100000000000000000000000000.  But it is also the parents'.  Many parents' see work as a monotonous affair & imbue this to their children.  They don't see the joy of work.  They work in jobs they DETEST.   Only a SMALL percentage of people work in jobs that they LOVE...….

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         Kathryn L Hillposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         Thats pathetic. Steve Jobs had a lot to say about this topic.

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 6 years ago

   In fact the computer/internet has opened up unlimited possibilities in this direction.
   But what good is a tool if the person who has access to it has no mind/reason to use it?

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   Kathryn L Hillposted 6 years ago

   The problem is this, in a nut shell:
   Why not inspire kids, rather than force them?
   
   It is clearly easier to inspire, encourage and motivate children in lighthearted ways that are fun and interesting.  But alas, parents and teachers are in the habit of forcing kids to learn. They punish them for bad grades and eventually their joy of learning is replaced with just wanting to get homework, schoolwork and the school-day itself done and over with.
   
   Meanwhile this world is so fascinating! There is so much to understand about the history of this planet, the scientific realities of this planet, the inventions throughout time and especially the last 100 years, concepts of math and how they can be applied, the joy of expressing oneself through writing and the arts, and the joy of gaining athletic skills.
   
   Instead, all these subjects are requirements and A's must be gotten, for, after all, universities must be gotten into and for that you'll need scholarships.
   
   So, homework must be done, subjects studied, and tests frantically taken ... and all this seemingly random busy work becomes so irrevelent to the person who is forced to study ... for the sake of getting good grades ... and these days, this torture starts in KINDERGARTEN.

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