Mike Hudack

This is Why You Were Bored as a Teenager

newsweek:

From NurtureShock:

In his new book, Dr. Joe Allen has concluded that our urge to protect teenagers from real life – because we don’t think they’re ready yet – has tragically backfired. By insulating them from adult-like work, adult social relationships, and adult consequences, we have only delayed their development. We have made it harder for them to grow up. Maybe even made it impossible to grow up on time.

Basically, we long ago decided that teens ought to be in school, not in the labor force. Education was their future. But the structure of schools is endlessly repetitive. “From a Martian’s perspective, high schools look virtually the same as sixth grade,” said Allen. “There’s no recognition, in the structure of school, that these are very different people with different capabilities.” Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes both incredibly montonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter.

This was my experience, and a key reason why I dropped out of high school and joined the workforce at sixteen.

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   This is very applicable to the discussion I had with my boyfriend earlier today.

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   omg…I was talking about this yesterday with a friend and thinking about it earlier. The bubble my mother sheltered me in...

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    The plight of institutionalized education, in which produces not the mentally enlightened individual, but the mentally...

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    well this is just depressing, but unfortunately in most cases, true -__-

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    i agree. unfortunately.

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    Maybe this is why I crave an office job, because they remind me so much of that environment again. Although… without the...

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    Hi mom, hi dad. Thanks. Is this why I still feel like a teenager (or younger?)?

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    Nothing shocking here, but I wonder if Dr. Allen’s book is worth reading.

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    This was my experience as well. I’ve always thought real learning was active, hands-on, and took place in real-life, not...

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    you’re not fucking joking. the amount of people i know who are like “oh i’m so old now” and ASSUME that makes them...

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    I couldn’t agree more!

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    Strapped to desks for 13+ years, school becomes both incredibly monotonous, artificial, and cookie-cutter. No shit,...

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    This is true. I wonder if this could apply to college students as well; maybe not just teens. But on the flip side,...

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    Good thing my parents were from a communist country and didn’t believe in any of this coddling bullshit. Everyone is so...

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    i wish this too! then you could go learn and internalize and hypothesize and share, and i could GET THE FUCK OUT OF...

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     I’d actually like to read this too… Also, this reminds me of the fact that I just really love school and love learning....

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     ADDING THIS BOOK TO THE MUST-READ LIST. IN FACT I THINK IT MIGHT BE #1 NOW. HOLY SHIT, HELLO MY LIFE.

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     I think this is brilliant and I might go out and buy his book. This is why I spent most of my college years interning...

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     This was my experience, and a key reason why I dropped out of high school and joined the workforce at sixteen.

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     very interesting

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