How an emphasis on self-sufficiency might actually be hurting students rather than helping them
, the astonishing selfishness of people who refuse to wear masks or restrict their activities during an epidemic — putting their"liberty" to do whatever they please above a sense of responsibility to the well-being of others -- is really just an amplified version of what our whole culture represents., you notice this motif everywhere. You hear it when we're told that the hallmark of maturity — the primary indicator of healthy development for young adults — is self-sufficiency.
You hear it when well-meaning teachers talk about providing"scaffolding" for students —that is, temporary support for what the kids can't yet, but soon will be expected to, do entirely on their own. Again, it's taken for granted that continuing to rely on others is something to be outgrown. Most of us are no more aware of the individualistic worldview that shapes us and defines our culture than a fish is aware of being in water. This is the context in which to understand how the central lesson in American schools, as Philip Jackson memorably put it, is"how to be alone in a crowd." Learning is regarded as an activity for a roomful of separate selves, not for a community.
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