Penultimate
05-19-04, 10:44 PM
This fool needs to get a clue.
So there's this drug adderall, right? Oh man, some of my friends do it and let me tell you: that stuff works. I don't mean improves concentration like ginseng 'improves concentration.' I mean it takes one's head and slams it against one's desk until half a semester's work lies in a neat pile completed.
Afterward all that is left are the side effects of, well, who cares.
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Why is medication so popular? Two interconnected reasons: first, it is easier than parenting, and second, there have been major changes to the education system in the last half-century.
When our baby boomer parents were in school, there were no corrective drugs, yet the education system was not in shambles (as would be expected if 12.5 percent of the children could not participate at all). The reason was the teachers had authority the parents backed up.
In schools, teachers used to be allowed to beat students. That was wrong, but with the demise of physical authority and the removal of the Ten Commandments (among other steps to make schools more politically correct), schools lost a lot of the power they had over kids. I assure you, I am not calling for the reinstatement of religion or physical abuse, but simple calculations will show you that K-12 students spend around 24 percent of their waking hours per year (including summers) in school. It is simply a fact schools have a large hand in raising kids. What schools really lost was not the power to harm children or the ability to stuff a religion down their throats; it was fear. Schools lost an aura, a symbol. Schools lost fear.
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Link (http://www.dailycampus.com/news/2004/05/09/Commentary/Adderall.The.Steroids.Of.Intellect-679963.shtml)
So there's this drug adderall, right? Oh man, some of my friends do it and let me tell you: that stuff works. I don't mean improves concentration like ginseng 'improves concentration.' I mean it takes one's head and slams it against one's desk until half a semester's work lies in a neat pile completed.
Afterward all that is left are the side effects of, well, who cares.
…
Why is medication so popular? Two interconnected reasons: first, it is easier than parenting, and second, there have been major changes to the education system in the last half-century.
When our baby boomer parents were in school, there were no corrective drugs, yet the education system was not in shambles (as would be expected if 12.5 percent of the children could not participate at all). The reason was the teachers had authority the parents backed up.
In schools, teachers used to be allowed to beat students. That was wrong, but with the demise of physical authority and the removal of the Ten Commandments (among other steps to make schools more politically correct), schools lost a lot of the power they had over kids. I assure you, I am not calling for the reinstatement of religion or physical abuse, but simple calculations will show you that K-12 students spend around 24 percent of their waking hours per year (including summers) in school. It is simply a fact schools have a large hand in raising kids. What schools really lost was not the power to harm children or the ability to stuff a religion down their throats; it was fear. Schools lost an aura, a symbol. Schools lost fear.
…
Link (http://www.dailycampus.com/news/2004/05/09/Commentary/Adderall.The.Steroids.Of.Intellect-679963.shtml)