2. Orson's list of the ways people feel 'wounded by school' poses a call to us
all on taking action about issues concerning education and specifically the multiple
ways in which affect our psychological health.By reading the list most people
can recognize situations and feelings they have been through.
Many students ,including myself, lose their interest about learning ,feel helpless and
bored. Lack of inspiration from all interested parties is obvious and the model of
the educator as the 'ultimate authority' causes anxiety and negative feelings to
students.When a person's sef-esteem is placed on good marks ,we are immediately
led to the loss of the joy for gaining precious knowledge.
Orson's list shines a bright light on an ignored truth that most of us are aware
but still do not act in the right direction so as to change things.Our society is
full of members who face psychological problems,in other words, carry scars in
their souls basically produced during their school life .Students who do not do
well ,drop out rates, lack of discipline used to be and still are only the surface
of the problem.What needs to be examined is the source of the troubles .We
should not forget that our society can never become a better place ,when people
around us [especially young children] live in pain ,suffering or trying to recover
and get rid of the feelings of humiliation ,self-doubt and various traumas that our
so called educational system causes .
Our educational system needs reorganizing and fixing . I cannot forget that
mainly during the time of my early school days, my boredom and lack of
enthusiasm made my life unbearable.Adding the fact that I was too quiet ,it is
not hard to guess how lonely and left out I was feeling.I used to keep such
bad memories that I still remember I never wanted to be a teacher so as not
to make people suffer.....But life had different plans …...as with the passing of the
years I realised that the purpose of my professional life was to learn more
about education and do my best to help students and their families overcome
various traumatic experiences.I, even became a school psychologist in order to
achieve that goal.The importance of the feeling of safety and the psychological
well being of a child became clearer to me when I had my son,who happens to
be a gifted [undisciplined for the school system] child.He also had to suffer for
quite some time due to the inadequacy of our educational system.
At this point ,I need to say that I found relief helping my child to adapt to a
suitable [as much as possible] environment and starting a campaign for the 'child-
centred knowledge'.Since then I have been trying to inform people 'that our current
school system harms everyone from burning out to the talented and gited to ignoring
the ones in the middle to alienated and ostracizing those with problems
,behavioural,cognitive or other .If we continue to ignore these traumas,we will continue
to produce a workforce that is unprepared both socially and mentally......and stand to
lose the potential of hundreds of thousands of students who just give up'[Michelle at
Master Musings].-
![Orson's list of the ways people feel 'wounded by school' poses a call to us
all on taking action about issues concerning education and specifically the multiple
ways in which affect our psychological health.By reading the list most people
can recognize situations and feelings they have been through.
Many students ,including myself, lose their interest about learning ,feel helpless and
bored. Lack of inspiration from all interested parties is obvious and the model of
the educator as the 'ultimate authority' causes anxiety and negative feelings to
students.When a person's sef-esteem is placed on good marks ,we are immediately
led to the loss of the joy for gaining precious knowledge.
Orson's list shines a bright light on an ignored truth that most of us are aware
but still do not act in the right direction so as to change things.Our society is
full of members who face psychological problems,in other words, carry scars in
their souls basically produced during their school life .Students who do not do
well ,drop out rates, lack of discipline used to be and still are only the surface
of the problem.What needs to be examined is the source of the troubles .We
should not forget that our society can never become a better place ,when people
around us [especially young children] live in pain ,suffering or trying to recover
and get rid of the feelings of humiliation ,self-doubt and various traumas that our
so called educational system causes .
Our educational system needs reorganizing and fixing . I cannot forget that
mainly during the time of my early school days, my boredom and lack of
enthusiasm made my life unbearable.Adding the fact that I was too quiet ,it is
not hard to guess how lonely and left out I was feeling.I used to keep such
bad memories that I still remember I never wanted to be a teacher so as not
to make people suffer.....But life had different plans …...as with the passing of the
years I realised that the purpose of my professional life was to learn more
about education and do my best to help students and their families overcome
various traumatic experiences.I, even became a school psychologist in order to
achieve that goal.The importance of the feeling of safety and the psychological
well being of a child became clearer to me when I had my son,who happens to
be a gifted [undisciplined for the school system] child.He also had to suffer for
quite some time due to the inadequacy of our educational system.
At this point ,I need to say that I found relief helping my child to adapt to a
suitable [as much as possible] environment and starting a campaign for the 'child-
centred knowledge'.Since then I have been trying to inform people 'that our current
school system harms everyone from burning out to the talented and gited to ignoring
the ones in the middle to alienated and ostracizing those with problems
,behavioural,cognitive or other .If we continue to ignore these traumas,we will continue
to produce a workforce that is unprepared both socially and mentally......and stand to
lose the potential of hundreds of thousands of students who just give up'[Michelle at
Master Musings].-](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)