Tim Ferriss shared this quote this week, and it’s pertinent:
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Compassion without struggle is soul-destroying, but so is struggle without purpose. Before we tear down Chesterton’s Fence of Achievement Awards (and we ought to), we need to find out why it’s there.
The people who went through *that* system created *this* one. The aggressors cemented their strategies and the victims their resentment.
The smaller the stakes, the uglier the game. And now, the Fed and bureaucratic totalitarianism have created a hamstrung ecosystem of dependency and meaninglessness, and people are desperate to make sense of why they are so miserable.
Buttercup gotta toughen up, but also needs a *reason* to.
Civilization needs a beating heart, and the throne has been usurped by technocratic diktat. We have to also add back purpose and meaning.
Eight year old girls getting brutally beaten by 13 year old racist bullies on the school bus aren’t experiencing coddling, they are just experiencing misery. That is not the way.
The beat downs in schools we are all seeing thanks to ubiquitous cell phones are, of course, horrifying. That is definitely not what is meant by toughen up buttercup. In those cases the teachers, principals school administrators and all those in the chain of command need to be the ones to toughen up and deal with what’s going on. And this thought spring to my mind…I’m old enough to remember how at least half of my teachers growing up were men. For my children as well, especially in middle school and on up. It sure seems like most teachers nowadays are female. I suspect a lot of the brutal behavior in classrooms would cease if men were more prevalent in the classrooms.
Yes, I’m not suggesting that the Cat thinks that abuse is appropriate. It’s more a question of how we got here and to recognize that there are real reasons, good and bad, why we did.
Of course. It’s a Gordian knot situation for sure. It’s just heartbreaking to see the trajectory overall is almost always downward for so many children, who end up as unhappy, confused and angry adults.
It's partly that, but it's also for the same reason real men are starting to avoid the military: Why go into a professional environment where you will be hated and where people far less able than you will get promotion because of their sex, skin color or orientation?
It’s all set-up to fail. Only acceptable solution is to raise taxes so GovInc can throw more money at it via some half-baked latest ideology program which never works.
My husband was a naughty little imp in Jr. High. Before school started one day, he was inspired to whip out his pocket knife he always had with him (Oh the horror! He still carries one every single day) and began to alter the sign on his Arts and Crafts classroom door into Farts and Crafts. His teacher (a man, who also taught him in wood shop and metal shop) caught him red-handed; and next thing he knew he was lifted up from behind by his ears, spun around, and the teacher back-handed him across the face. Then he was pulled into class and had his bottom spanked with a paddle in front of the entire classroom. And then summarily sent to the principles office. End of story.
Spot on. At the school I teach, 90% of the men are homosexuals or beta-guys who out feminine the women. The remaining 10% of real men keep a very low profile and somehow never move up the ladder. Oh, and the "Wellness Counselor" is a transgendered male. Glad I got out of there.
when I was a kid we had female teachers for girls and male for boys. Only when we went higher up, there were first one and then several male teachers in our all girls school
Tim Ferriss shared this quote this week, and it’s pertinent:
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
(Click here to share on Twitter)
Compassion without struggle is soul-destroying, but so is struggle without purpose. Before we tear down Chesterton’s Fence of Achievement Awards (and we ought to), we need to find out why it’s there.
The people who went through *that* system created *this* one. The aggressors cemented their strategies and the victims their resentment.
The smaller the stakes, the uglier the game. And now, the Fed and bureaucratic totalitarianism have created a hamstrung ecosystem of dependency and meaninglessness, and people are desperate to make sense of why they are so miserable.
Buttercup gotta toughen up, but also needs a *reason* to.
Civilization needs a beating heart, and the throne has been usurped by technocratic diktat. We have to also add back purpose and meaning.
Eight year old girls getting brutally beaten by 13 year old racist bullies on the school bus aren’t experiencing coddling, they are just experiencing misery. That is not the way.
The beat downs in schools we are all seeing thanks to ubiquitous cell phones are, of course, horrifying. That is definitely not what is meant by toughen up buttercup. In those cases the teachers, principals school administrators and all those in the chain of command need to be the ones to toughen up and deal with what’s going on. And this thought spring to my mind…I’m old enough to remember how at least half of my teachers growing up were men. For my children as well, especially in middle school and on up. It sure seems like most teachers nowadays are female. I suspect a lot of the brutal behavior in classrooms would cease if men were more prevalent in the classrooms.
Yes, I’m not suggesting that the Cat thinks that abuse is appropriate. It’s more a question of how we got here and to recognize that there are real reasons, good and bad, why we did.
Of course. It’s a Gordian knot situation for sure. It’s just heartbreaking to see the trajectory overall is almost always downward for so many children, who end up as unhappy, confused and angry adults.
And if the men in the classroom were men NOT grown soy boys or gay.
I'm pretty sure most "men" don't go into teaching, because it doesn't pay enough.
It's partly that, but it's also for the same reason real men are starting to avoid the military: Why go into a professional environment where you will be hated and where people far less able than you will get promotion because of their sex, skin color or orientation?
Don't forget the good, old-fashioned suck-ups. I'm pretty sure they still exist. 😒
As a teacher you are tasked with maintaining order and discipline in class (though you aren't allowed to call it that).
You're also forbidden from using any methods that actually work.
And when everything therefore devolves into monkey-business, it's your fault.
It’s all set-up to fail. Only acceptable solution is to raise taxes so GovInc can throw more money at it via some half-baked latest ideology program which never works.
Absolutely!
My husband was a naughty little imp in Jr. High. Before school started one day, he was inspired to whip out his pocket knife he always had with him (Oh the horror! He still carries one every single day) and began to alter the sign on his Arts and Crafts classroom door into Farts and Crafts. His teacher (a man, who also taught him in wood shop and metal shop) caught him red-handed; and next thing he knew he was lifted up from behind by his ears, spun around, and the teacher back-handed him across the face. Then he was pulled into class and had his bottom spanked with a paddle in front of the entire classroom. And then summarily sent to the principles office. End of story.
Major street creed with his peers that day.
Spot on. At the school I teach, 90% of the men are homosexuals or beta-guys who out feminine the women. The remaining 10% of real men keep a very low profile and somehow never move up the ladder. Oh, and the "Wellness Counselor" is a transgendered male. Glad I got out of there.
when I was a kid we had female teachers for girls and male for boys. Only when we went higher up, there were first one and then several male teachers in our all girls school
Yep. I remember having massive crushes on my female teachers. Except for the snarky old bat who taught maths. She was a prototype Karen!