Each person is unique and it is from that individuality that we draw strength as a whole. We should use such advantages for our benefit. Plato often wrote about this in The Republic, that each member of a society must do what he is best at and be released from responsibility for those things he is not good at, which can be done by others. The individual and society gain more with this methodology. Why have we not considered this sage advice in our culture? Instead, we often put people in jobs for which they are inadequately suited in terms of patience, competence, and ability. Who benefits? Would a football team that really wants to win the game do that? After all; the guy with the strong foot and lanky build should be the kicker, not a lineman, since he’d only be good for one play.
However, as our world becomes more PC, we seem to worry too much about hurt feelings in the real world and try to make everyone equal, people are not equal; not genetically and certainly not through different parenting experiences. For example, I’m a terrible accountant and I could be good at it, but it would be hell for me to try. This wouldn’t be of any use to anyone if I was assigned to that position, would it? An accountant may be less suitable for the activities in which I tend to excel.
We are very quick to judge and label people with disorders or properly categorize and place them where society has agreed in advance that they should be, rather than looking at the individual. Schools are too quick to prescribe students ADHD and put them on Prozac. We should discover where the superior traits can do the most good. From our studies of different people, we found that the lowest intelligence levels are happy in repetitive jobs.
We know that Type “A” personalities are lousy accountants and don’t like fine details. So what do people with ADHD have? We know that they are not necessarily lacking in intelligence. So why is it a disorder if the person shows signs of increased intelligence? After all, wouldn’t that be a sign of strength and a positive attribute? People with ADHD may not always get the highest score on the English section of the SAT tests, but we know they’re not stupid. So take a smart, but restless person. What would they be best suited for? What do they excel at and what would they be best suited for as an occupation?
The person with ADHD usually doesn’t have the opportunity to get many certificates or degrees, they probably hate school. It probably feels like torture to them, so we should find the need for their genetic makeup and you win, actually we all win. Or we could continue to classify them as brain-deficient with an intractable disorder, and then inject drugs into their bodies to alter the natural flow of their individual thought. We’re not paying enough attention to the issues of ADHD and bipolar disorder, (there’s that word again) we don’t take into account the incredible number of prescription drugs our youth are given like Ridalin (Eng?) and Prozac. and its effects on the learning ability of our children and young adults in real terms and real levels of intelligence due to insufficient brain power wasted on mood control and babysitting drugs, as I call them in this age.
A recent Carnegie report is interesting because it talks about the problems of bringing productivity and ethics back to the workplace starting in schools and, in retrospect, it is a worthwhile study even though it is a prediction of the past and a mission for the future. future. may not take into account the newest problem of the current decade; that our misuse of drugs in the brains of our students is hurting our ability to reach that lofty goal. It’s largely an optimistic approach to resting the bar on productivity, ethics, and expectations, but it’s not a very real world in terms of the reality of parents, teachers, and public goals on medication. People just aren’t too concerned about these issues and we’re artificially numbing the brains of millions of students every year calling it a way to calm rebellious, high-energy, bipolar kids with ADHD. It’s a noble and worthy cause to want order in classrooms and to be able to teach larger groups of students, but I don’t see the long-term benefits of denying what it is to be human and calling much of what is normal behavior disordered. there may be 1-2% who need some type of medication, but in some schools the number of children on medication is 13-17%, that is simply not good for the flow of thought in children and adolescents. Middle school reform in today’s metropolitan sectors is by far the most difficult challenge.
The American School Board Journal also touches on this subject and has a list of recommended readings on these topics of drug use. I think it is possible to change the current direction and course.
Accountability in Action: A Model for Learning; By Douglas B. Reeves.
Conflicting Missions?-Teacher Unions and Educational Reform; For Tom without love.
Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success: A Self-Management Approach, by Myron H Dembo.
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We can build schools now or prisons later. But no matter how many schools you build, you must not impede the flow of thought in the children’s minds. Children with a lot of energy or those who learn differently should be cultivated and put into activities to burn off that excess energy through exercise. This is much better than slowing down your systems artificially unless absolutely necessary. What does Prozac do because of children? Well, I suggest you read the book; “Living on Prozac” in case you doubt any of what we’re saying here and it doesn’t just stop at schools, 17% of the American population takes these things, it’s a consideration. It takes 30 days for Prozac to start working, so it’s obvious that it’s changing after the chemical reaches critical mass, which means it’s changing everything. A fraternity at a major medical college obtains lists of women taking Prozac so they can date them. The Fraternity has an incredible record stating that 86% of those girls will go out on the first date. So much for these scientific white paper field studies, maybe these guys are onto something? The reasoning seems to point to a drug, which dulls, lowers inhibitions, and causes somewhat irrational behavior. Is that or are these guys big studs? You be the judge, but is a drug that provokes such behavior worthy of our children?
The human brain is usually fully formed by the age of 6, however there are plenty of children taking mind-altering drugs before the age of six, is this smart? So the first thing we need in our study is to allow the brain to have a flow of thought and that starts in the upbringing of our students. We must resist turning off our children’s brains, we have enough adults who have already stopped thinking, for example, look how some of these people drive? Think about it.