What exactly is the logic behind pre-school admission interviews? To assess whether the child is worthy of being educated or not? To assess whether he will do well enough in the next ten years to get his school in the newspapers? To assess whether his parents are rich/socially connected enough to ensure a steady stream of funds?
How can we even think of interviewing a child? Think of all the unnecessary stress the kid goes through while ambitious/helpless/frantic parents try to drum some knowledge into his head. And the stress of the interview itself. Heaven knows that the child has ample opportunities later in life to get stressed out. Why must it start at such a young age? Is there any simplicity in childhood anymore? Or are children weighed down by the expectations of parents and society?
The moment the child can gurgle a few words, his life is planned out for him. School, college, career, extra-curricular activies...and now preparation for a pre-school admission interview of all things.
Isn't pre-school supposed to teach the child exactly what he's being interviewed about?
We're killing the very essence of childhood...
I've finished reading The Fountainhead...a truly excellent book. Why didn't I read it earlier? I'll tell you why.
I attempted to read Atlas Shrugged when I was 14. And didn't get past the first chapter. So I avoided Ayn Rand for a while. A very long while I should say. I have still not attempted to read Atlas Shrugged and probably won't.
But The Fountainhead was brilliant.
Tomorrow is an off...I shall sleep all day...
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I attempted to read Atlas Shrugged, and was so repelled by the resemblance of myself to the villains of the piece that I gave up and rolled over and went to sleep for another three years. You're fortunate if you didn't hate yourself at first read.
Think of "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" and the man who decided the whole world was insane and put it in an ayslum. I think of that often. Sadly I don't think I can number myself amongst the sane...
I read Atlas a long time ago. It is easy to see the appeal of objectivism. Not that I think it works, but it is easy to see the appeal. I also see the appeal of a diet that consists entierly of ice cream...
--Jock
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