4/1/2023 0 Comments What is the opposite of lazy![]() ![]() My family was part of the birth of the modern unschooling movement, four decades ago. ![]() ![]() As unschoolers, their curiosity is trusted to do the job. Some kids are luckier – and arguably better educated – because they are part of a growing movement dedicated to the realization that learning doesn’t have to be work and that children don’t have to be forced to learn. ![]() The long hours school students are forced to spend memorizing, cramming for exams and doing homework seldom produce much real learning. Unfortunately for these children, work for its own sake – or because somebody else tells you it’s good for you – just doesn’t make sense. Parents and educators mistrust anything that looks like inactivity or being lazy, and bustle around trying to motivate our kids to “find something useful to do”. Children’s time is regimented into study periods and programmed in pursuit of “learning outcomes,” and even their out-of-school time is scheduled for homework, tutoring and more lessons or organized activities. In school, learning is work, and anything else is being lazy. That attitude might have been a useful tool for factory owners trying to make their employees productive, but it can actually be counterproductive today, when working smarter and more creatively are keys to success and happiness.įunny, then, that our education system still embodies the Puritan Work Ethic. I guess it’s the legacy of that old Puritan Work Ethic – and you don’t have subscribe to any particular religion to suffer from it! Like our current style of public education, which is based on it, the belief that hard work makes you a better human being dates back to the Industrial Revolution. Few things seem to trouble parents more than the possibility our kids might be lazy. ![]()
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