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Schools, colleges and universities are mills that are largely run on the fuel of psychology.
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Granted teachers are well qualified in their specialties, but they are not well qualified in learning. So psychology is used to rationalize the incompetence of the mill – a force to rationalize negativity. Education is forced, it’s mundane, it’s constantly tested, and it’s boring. When students resist this unnatural environment, we blame them. Education is supposed to be difficult. It requires hard work, dedication and commitment. If we make it interesting and engaging, somehow we have made ourselves believe that we can’t learn anything valuable that way. If you make it easy, it is not learning. But if you stop and think about the subjects that we liked and our children like, they are the ones that the teacher made easy for us to learn. They went outside the scope of operating the mill and they did it on their own initiative, always working above and beyond what was required. Those are the good teachers. They see psychology as a positive force.
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