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This is Why You Were Bored as a Teenager

mikehudack:

newsweek:

From NurtureShock:

In his new book, Dr. Joe Allen has concluded that our urge to protect teenagers from real life – because we don’t think they’re ready yet – has tragically backfired. By insulating them from adult-like work, adult social relationships, and adult consequences, we have only delayed their development. We have made it harder for them to grow up. Maybe even made it impossible to grow up on time.

Basically, we long ago decided that teens ought to be in school, not in the labor force. Education was their future. But the structure of schools is endlessly repetitive. “From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade,” said Allen. “There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.” Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes incredibly montonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter.

This was my experience, and a key reason why I dropped out of high school and joined the workforce at sixteen.

Reblogged 3 months ago from mikehudack (originally from newsweek)
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  1. g-squirrel reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    This is very applicable to the discussion I had with my boyfriend earlier today.
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  3. tautou reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    omg…I was talking about this yesterday with a friend and thinking about it earlier. The bubble my mother sheltered me in...
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  7. figuremeout reblogged this from laurakelly00 and added:
    The plight of institutionalized education, in which produces not the mentally enlightened individual, but the mentally...
  8. metaphysicalreverie reblogged this from piquant and added:
    well this is just depressing, but unfortunately in most cases, true -__-
  9. mashedpotatoes reblogged this from isolophobia and added:
    i agree. unfortunately.
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    Maybe this is why I crave an office job, because they remind me so much of that environment again. Although… without the...
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  22. zebrapunch reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    Hi mom, hi dad. Thanks. Is this why I still feel like a teenager (or younger?)?
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  27. affably reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    Nothing shocking here, but I wonder if Dr. Allen’s book is worth reading.
  28. zadi reblogged this from ronenreblogs and added:
    This was my experience as well. I’ve always thought real learning was active, hands-on, and took place in real-life, not...
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    you’re not fucking joking. the amount of people i know who are like “oh i’m so old now” and ASSUME that makes them...
  35. shirazeldazzle reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    I couldn’t agree more!
  36. altidude reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes both incredibly monotonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter. No shit,...
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  46. mandazee reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    This is true. I wonder if this could apply to college students as well; maybe not just teens. But on the flip side,...
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    Good thing my parents were from a communist country and didn’t believe in any of this coddling bullshit. Everyone is so...
  50. isabelthespy reblogged this from reachingtheshore and added:
    i wish this too! then you could go learn and internalize and hypothesize and share, and i could GET THE FUCK OUT OF...
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  53. reachingtheshore reblogged this from isabelthespy and added:
    I’d actually like to read this too… Also, this reminds me of the fact that I just really love school and love learning....
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  56. isabelthespy reblogged this from psychotherapy and added:
    ADDING THIS BOOK TO THE MUST-READ LIST. IN FACT I THINK IT MIGHT BE #1 NOW. HOLY SHIT, HELLO MY LIFE.
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    I think this is brilliant and I might go out and buy his book. This is why I spent most of my college years interning...
  64. mikehudack reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    This was my experience, and a key reason why I dropped out of high school and joined the workforce at sixteen.
  65. ebygum reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    very interesting
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