{"id":2690,"date":"2009-04-24T07:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2015-04-24T05:13:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T12:13:38","slug":"the-pursuit-of-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/the-pursuit-of-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Passion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Education\"FFF.org<\/a> | A friend of mine who is a piano instructor was telling me that a parent of one of her students told her that her child loves the piano so much that she has trouble pulling him away from it. Apparently, the student, who is 17, practices several hours every day. The reason he\u2019s able to do that is that he\u2019s home-schooled. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s assume that home-schooling was once again made illegal, as it was back in the 1950s and 60s. That boy would be forced into the public-schooling system, where he would be required to spend his time every day attaining what the educrats call a \u201cwell-rounded\u201d education, one that would entail one hour each on such subjects as English, Social Studies, history, math, and science. <\/p>\n

Suppose the boy were to say to the public-school educrats, \u201cSorry, I\u2019m not interested in any of those subjects. All that I wish to do is play the piano all day long\u201d <\/p>\n

No doubt the educrats would laugh at him and say, \u201cYou\u2019re here to get an education, boy, a well-rounded one. Now get to class before the bell rings, if you want to avoid detention\u201d <\/p>\n

Of course, some students would simply submit and conform, which is really the primary aim of the system. Despite all its faults and failures, no one can deny that public schooling can claim one great achievement: the production of a compliant, conformist citizenry. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s assume that our piano-loving student, however, isn\u2019t one of those types. Unable to continue spending hours every day at the piano, and forced to listen to boring lectures on subjects that don\u2019t interest him, he becomes angry, frustrated, and distracted. He\u2019s bored in class, doesn\u2019t study for tests, and receives failing grades. <\/p>\n

The educrats realize that they have a problem on their hands. The boy is not submitting and conforming. He\u2019s a slow learner, a troublemaker. He\u2019s obviously got a severe learning disability. He needs to be treated so that he can be like everyone else \u2014 a responsible student who learns to submit to authority and conform to the dictates of state officials. <\/p>\n

The solution is obvious. The boy needs to be drugged, in order to help his mind reach the desired level of submissiveness and conformity. When the boy reaches the point where he is able to honestly declare, \u201cI have become one of you,\u201d the drug treatment can be declared a success and can be ended, assuming that the kid has not become psychologically dependent on it. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, all too many parents, who themselves were made into models of submissiveness and conformity by public schooling, end up trusting the state rather than their children. They are unable to recognize that it is the state\u2019s public schooling system itself that is aberrant and dysfunctional and that their children\u2019s resistance to it is perfectly natural and healthy. They end up supporting the state\u2019s diagnosis and drugging of their children. <\/p>\n

Thank goodness though that many parents have been able to achieve the necessary breakthrough, which has enabled them to recognize the damage that this aberrant system of coercion, regimentation, and conformity does to children. They have had the wisdom to remove their children from the government\u2019s system of schooling. If only we could free every child from this aberrant system by separating school and state entirely, as our ancestors did with church and state. <\/p>\n

Good for those parents who are letting their kid play the piano to his heart\u2019s content. By being free to pursue his passion, not only will he be better off, so will everyone else, especially those who get to listen to his great piano performances. <\/p>\n

By Jacob G. Hornberger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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