Comments by "andrew worth" (@andrewworth7574) on "TED"
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Kids from poor and broken homes in poorer neighborhoods don't get the same family support that kids from wealthier and more stable homes get, that's where the problem starts, these kids often appear more mature because they've been less protected, they've been made harder, more staunch, kids. Monique W. Morris doesn't appear to understand this, rather she cuts straight to the schools, blaming the schools for not being better parents. While schools have a duty of care, it is not the schools job to be a substitute parent.
Having said that, obviously there is a need to improve the climate and parenting in many poorer homes, and it is asking people to lift themselves off the ground by pulling on their own bootstraps just to say: "It's the parents fault, they have to fix it." It will take community support to change adult mindsets in those homes, but that's where the solutions need to be worked because that's where the problems start.
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@stefaniasmanio859 assuming you're gushing over Monbiot's speech for its content rather than style I have to ask why?
Monbiot attacks "neo-liberalism" by which he means the current economic system that is transforming the world, making the world richer and all countries that have adopted the current western economic system richer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usdJgEwMinM
Monbiot claims the system has failed, he offers no evidence supporting that contention, indeed, all the evidence supports the contention that Monbiot is dead wrong about the current economic system being a failure, the Earth's population is richer and happier today than at any time in history (as Hans Rosling demonstrates in the above link and as Steven Pinker demonstrates in his book Enlightenment Now.
You state "I think that my students are going to learn this speech by heart... "
That's super creepy, and illustrates how the modern education system has become captured by the ideology of many teachers. I can't imagine a good teacher ever threatening his/her students with rote learning of the speech of a journalist of no great accomplishment, rather, I'd hope a good teacher would emphasis the importance of critical thinking, of not accepting just the ideological view point most preferred by the teacher and slavishly memorizing a speech expressing that view point, your commitment to forcing your students into memorizing Monbiot's speech reminds me of how the Chinese were expected to memorize Mao's Little Red Book - to the exclusion of any opinions that contradicted Mao.
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@Warrior_Resisting_Colonialism nothing personal but the fable of pre-agrarian peoples living peaceful happy lives is a myth, populations were kept in check by death, if the natural environment was super kind and allowed populations to grow death came in other forms; in war with competing tribes, or through the use of infanticide to keep the population within the limits that the resources available in the environment imposed.
That's how it always was: in pre-agrarian Europe, in Australasia, across the Polynesian Pacific, in Africa, in the Americas, and in Asia. The myth of the "noble savage" is just that; a myth. People can and will breed unless there's effective contraception, and in pre-agrarian societies there wasn't such a thing.
For some societies this is the reality that we don't want to see or hear:
https://quillette.com/2018/07/27/burying-a-child/
For other societies if the struggle against nature was harsh (in the Australian deserts) warfare with the neighbors wasn't required to keep population in check, in other places, where nature was kinder, (most of North America) it was tribal warfare that did the job.
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