A strange avatar you've got Eddie999. yet I agree on the article.
Guess you already saw this one
www.abovetopsecret.com...
>>If you don´t trust or respect any authorities,
>>Do you respect experience?
As for me, I respect the of the experience result. Like if a teacher has -8 glasses, hemorroids and a completely screwed-up personal and financial
life... I would doubt what he is trying to teach me.
>>It is the lack of discipline and the lack of respect that is
>>causing our children’s generation to become appalling.
I believe that true respect - from children and everybody else - is received by ones achievements in life, not by hammering "you have to respect
me!" in children heads. When I look at school teachers ( described above ) I more feel sorry for them, then respect. So many kids also start feeling
some disrespect them.
>>Back when I was a child you would get the strap. You didn’t even think of doing anything bad after awhile...
I also believe that after a while like that you won't even think much of your own. You would start thinking in hammered in templates of what is
"good" and "bad", of what "is possible" and what "is not". You would be already afraid of making your own decisions, of questioning common
know truth.
Take a most successful and charismatic personality you know and start disciplining him by telling what is "good" and "bad" and by hitting him
every time he tries to use his own head. What would he turn into in a few years? In a cripple, like most "normal" people.
And as for the "value of a dollar"... it is very individual, so one can become a parasite on his parents if not taught to earn his own money. Yet
from my own experience, if one is taught too much of how he should earn 20$, he would miss million dollar opportunities later in life, chasing this 20
bucks.
But the "value of work"... hmm... if one is doing how work for money, in most cases he would not only be unhappy, but he also would not get any
money ( serious ) for it. Look at the workers in a factory. Now look at millionaires who are running their own business - in most cases they are doing
it just for "fun".
>>I would suggest doing some sort of punishment that they would not enjoy yet would not be harmful (like community service).
But of course it is much easier to punish or say "don't do that, it's bad", instead of trying to understand why they are doing it and offer them a
way that won't harm anybody.
Good Luck!
[edit on 23-8-2004 by bratok]