User:Samerhil
I speak few slavic languages, some english and some Esperanto.
About me:
[edit]- Vegetarian (other tags: vegan)
- Nonbeliever (other tags: atheist, nonreligious, agnostic, nontheist)
The things practiced by men and women in drab clothes, singing mournful hymns of tenth-rate music, asking forgiveness for their sins - this is nothing I wish to be identified with.
- Introvert
- Melancholic
- Cosmopolite. Earth is my home. I am careful with using names, but many people, probably, would use this word to define such a person.
| uk | Українська мова для цього користувача є рідною. |
| ru | Русский — родной язык этого участника. |
 | This user enjoys classical music. |
| V | This user is a vegetarian. |
On education:
[edit]Obviously, a school that makes active children sit at desks studying mostly useless subjects is a bad school. It is a good school only for those who believe in such a school, for those uncreative citizens who want docile, uncreative children who will fit into a civilization whose standard of success is money. Most of the schoolwork that adolescents do is simply a waste of time, of energy, of patience. It robs youth of its right to play and play and play; it puts old heads on young shoulders. Parents are slow in realizing how unimportant the learning side of school is. Children, like adults, learn what they want to learn. Only pedants claim that learning from books is education. Their textbooks do not deal with human character, or with love, or with freedom, or with self-determination. And so the system goes on, aiming only at standards of book learning goes on separating the head from the heart. Books are the least important apparatus in a school. All that any child sooner or later needs is to read, write and making some basic arithmetics; the rest should be tools and clay, music and communication, climbing trees and sports and theater and paint and freedom. The nursery training is very like the kennel training; the whipped child, like the whipped puppy, grows into an obedient, inferior adult. And as we train our dogs to suit our own purposes, so we train our children. In that kennel, the nursery, the human dogs must be clean; they must not bark too much; they must obey the whistle; they must feed when we think it convenient for them to feed. Civilization is sick and unhappy, and I claim that the root of it all is the unfree family. Children are deadened by all the forces of reaction and hate, deadened from their cradle days. They are trained to say nay to life because their young lives are one long nay. Don't make a noise, don't masturbate, don't lie, don't steal. They are taught to say yea to all that is negative in life. Respect the old, respect religion, respect the schoolmaster, respect the law of the fathers. Don't question anything - just obey. It is not virtuous to respect one who is not respectable; nor virtuous to live in legal sin with a man or woman you have ceased to love, nor virtuous to love a God you really fear. There is never a problem child; there are only problem parents. Perhaps it would be better to say that there is only problem humanity. That is why the atomic bomb is so sinister, for it is under the control of people who are anti-life for what person whose arms were tied in the cradle is not anti-life? The fight is an unequal one, for the haters control education, religion, the law, the armies and the vile prisons. Only a handful of educators strive to allow the good in all children to grow in freedom. The vast majority of children are being molded by anti-life supporters with their hateful system of punishments. Girls in some convents still have to cover themselves when they take a bath, lest they see their own bodies. Boys are still told by parent and teacher that masturbation is a sin leading to madness and all sorts of fearful consequences. Recently, I saw a woman spank a baby of about ten months for crying when it was thirsty. It is a race between the believers in deadness and the believers in life. And no man dare remain neutral: that will mean death. We must be on one side or the other. The death side gives us the problem child; the life side will give us the healthy child. No pro-life person would sit in a church and claim to be a miserable sinner.
If you disagree, and if you are not sincerely interested in art, not sensitive, if you are any kind of theist and non-vegetarian, then please don't contact me.
Contact information:
[edit]- "kgna-orvs [at] riseup [dot] net"
(delete "-" after "kgna", it's just obfuscation, name should be without dash; [at] = "@", [dot] = ".")