Title: 8 Ways School is Making Children Stupid and Depressed | The Unbounded Spirit
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Content: It teaches children what to think, not how to think
School does not teach children how to develop their critical thinking skills so that they can assess information and reach their own conclusions when presented with it. On the contrary, they are made to accept what they are being taught on faith alone. This way school stunts children’s intellectual growth, turning them into thoughtless automatons who can’t reason or question the beliefs they’ve been conditioned to hold. 3. It teaches children to be uncreative
Children’s imagination is wild, but school does a perfect job in suppressing it. For example, although children are incredibly creative, the Arts are nearly nonexistent in most schools around the world, since a career path in the Arts is commonly considered not to be quite profitable or important. As a result, instead of being allowed to creatively express themselves through painting, music, dance, theater, and so on, children are most of the time forced into doing and learning things they don’t care about and which don’t help them to cultivate the imaginative and creative aspects of their psyche. 4. It teaches children to fear failure
Mistakes teach us right from wrong, and thus allow us to grow in wisdom. School, however, is conditioning children to fear making mistakes, and to avoid failure at any cost.