Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.
Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.
Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
I'll tell you what the real problem is: These people are working under the assumption that they know better about what is good for kids, what kids need to learn to get ahead in this world.
No matter what parents do, kids retain their uniqueness.
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