It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.
Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing.
I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
Repression is fantastic.