[mudblood]

Running around a nursery teaches kids to attack and how to deal with being attacked. The only thing I don't like about it is the way they are run.

There's an amazing video done in the 70's or 80s, something like "preschool in 3 cultures", which shows the Chinese way, the American way, and the Japanese way. The Chinese raised their kids to do everything the same, no deviation. The Americans had too much babying by the baby-sitters. The Japanese way seemed the best to me: let the kids fight it out themselves, govern themselves, control the classroom and insure that the rules were being followed themselves. Miscreants were taken care of by the bigger kids, and the good kids got the respect and admiration they deserved because they earned it, and not because some pencil-heads decided that everyone deserves respect and was entitled to dignity.

Ok, there you go. Nursery school is great, but only if its run by the Japanese.

[silverleaf]

Oh yeah, the Japanese.

Now there's an example of a culture with happy "well-adjusted" non emotionally repressed people/not

Highest child suicide rate in the developed world?

[Politicalmom]

And if the "big kids" are sadistic bullies, what happens?

[LK44-40]

let the kids fight it out themselves, govern themselves

Yea....like in Lord of the Flies.

You must be either:

1. Employed by the Japanese Ministry of Propaganda, or

2. Deranged by Rousseau, or

3. Just enjoying baiting your friends here, or

4. You are five-years-old and impatient with Napolenoic ambition, or

5. You are on crack!

[dawn53]

The Japanese way seemed the best to me: let the kids fight it out themselves, govern themselves, control the classroom and insure that the rules were being followed themselves. Miscreants were taken care of by the bigger kids, and the good kids got the respect and admiration they deserved because they earned it, and not because some pencil-heads decided that everyone deserves respect and was entitled to dignity. Ok, there you go. Nursery school is great, but only if its run by the Japanese.

Hmmm. Sounds like a toddler version of "Lord of the Flies."

[Calpernia]

>>>Nursery school is great, but only if its run by the Japanese.

Yeah? So was Unit 731.