For the past three years, I have been trying to teach the children in my philosophy classes why virtues and values are far more important than laws and government. Why social norms are the best indicators of a healthy society, not states that give away "free" stuff. Why all freedom comes with responsibility, and why all beauty has to be earned through hard work, otherwise we will not value it as such.
These children, the future generation, at a small school in the country, know more about reality than the adults I have to deal with here in my big city of Leipzig.
Every pupil greets me at school. Most of them behave in my class. Almost all of them except the punishment when they misbehave. And the best thing for me is that most of them love my lessons and can't wait to have the next philosophy or economics lesson with me.
The best compliment I can get as a teacher, and I am the only teacher in my school who gets this compliment, is this:
The bell rings for break, but the kids are still sitting and listening. They don't want to leave! They want to absorb knowledge!
With great power comes great responsibility, or something like that.
Kids are not stupid, our system makes them stupid.
They are curious and want to know about the real world.
We have to be the change we want to see!
That's why I go out there every day to fight the system and protect the kids before they can be corrupted.
Or shot, as @Joakim Book puts it: I'm a well-paid babysitter.
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It sounds like you're doing good work then. 🫡
I hope so honestly!
There isn't a deep enough respect for philosophy today. I believe you can see that fact playing itself out alongside all of the issues we're seeing.
I truly agree! Even my own school system thinks philosophy is just a chit chat class not valuable at all.
Even academics miss the point too. Just as often as the rest of the world.
Unfortunately Marxists have captured the socialist public school curriculumn, and are using the school systems in America to indoctrinate kids into becoming political Marxist actuvists.
The recent book "The Maxification of Education" by James Lindsay does a deep dive into it.
An easier read that mainly exposes how queer Marxism (LGBT) is indoctrinating kids in schools is "The Queering of the American Child" by Logan Lancing and James Lindsay.
James Lindsay and his partners in the Grievance Studies... I can hardly find room to appreciate them more than I do already.
Yeah its pretty crazy that it's like the bell rings and you stop learning to move to the next thing.
I mean, it's not even subtle, it's a bell to move the widgets along the assembly line.
Care to share the literature that you refer to them? Thank you!
To be honest, I am too lazy to type a list after this long day. Most of it is this book collection (picture attached) plus a bunch of papers (mostly Chicago, GMU, TTU) and some philosophy books (Kant, Jung, Freud, Weber) which are unfortunately still in boxes.
I hope that helps a bit.
https://m.primal.net/Kaqp.jpg
You took the time to visit your library and snap the picture. When I’m tired I wouldn’t have gone downstairs for the sake of a reply. The minimum I can do is zoom in and learn a bit from your references. Thank you very much from a father trying to teach a beautiful daughter the value of questioning.
You take one of the greatest responsibilities there are! I wish you all the best! Whenever you need help, let me know!
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