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CMV: Schools Cause Psychological & Developmental Harm

Hi, I'm a preschool teacher, and I've been studying psychology a lot over the past several years. It led me to psychoanalyze myself pretty thoroughly, and realize the causes for a lot of the difficulty that I was having (depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD).    


Having gotten to the root cause of a lot of different problematic thought processes, and realizing that these later developed into disorders, it seems to me that school causes huge problems for us, psychologically.  I'll approach this topic by pretending we're all currently back in school. Put your imagination hats on, and come with me!  ;-)  


For example, we sit... for 8 hours. We're still basically animals, and yet we're not allowed to move, stretch, talk, or even use the bathroom without an external authority approving us first.   


We aren't allowed to exercise our executive function, which atrophies as it stays dormant for most of the day.  Then, when we need to make choices for ourselves, it hasn't been used much, and isn't very strong.  This can make it difficult to act upon what you want to do, or what you need to do, and are trying to do.  Since this is happening while we're developing into adults, our developing brain and body aren't using as much of the chemicals related to making choices and acting upon them, so it gets used to producing less...Which is a problem that happens with mental disorders.   


Lack of stimulation causes developmental delays and stunting. We sit at a desk, stare at a blackboard, and listen to a lecture, for basically 8 hours straight.  


I believe that we naturally learn by being inspired or curious -- seeing something interesting, and playing with it. Trying different ways to use it, or combine it with things.  We learn by playing, building, trying, expressing. Playing allows newness to occur.  Expression is part of the process of understanding something, and saving it to memory.  


Basically, I think school is ruining us all. Hurting more than helping.  And I wont even start on which classes are taught vs what would be much better to include. Except to say that emotional management and understanding, mediation & conflict resolution, how to empathize, and how to cooperate, are all things that we desperately need to know, now, and we should be teaching.
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It seems more like your point is "bad teaching causes harm" - like this part:

> Lack of stimulation causes developmental delays and stunting. We sit at a desk, stare at a blackboard, and listen to a lecture, for basically 8 hours straight

That's a bad teacher. A *good one* is calling on students and eliciting opinions and discussion and whatnot - stimulating their minds.

Also, what would you replace the current system with if we agree it's bad and abolish it?