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It would be easy to make a list of the chores we expected our children to do and the way we expected them to be done, but what would he really be learning? Was our ultimate goal to teach him how to make a bed perfectly, or was it something deeper—teaching him how to navigate living in a shared space with others? And if the latter, why would I focus on a well-made bed? Parents often assign kids tasks, like setting the table, something that comes with rigid standards (“Napkin on the left under the fork, knives on the right, then plates, then glasses”); but rarely do we ask our kids to do things like figure out how to plant a vegetable garden in our yard, how to organize the space in the mudroom that is so messy no one can find what they are looking for, or even how to plan for a summer of no school with two working parents. I’m not suggesting parents do away with the more prescriptive tasks that simply need to get done, but we so rarely stop to ask what it is we really want our kids to learn.
This is also why the entire world has increasingly become a single civilisation. When things really work, everybody adopts them.
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
SAYRE’S LAW
The lower the stakes, the more vicious the politics. When there's much to gain or lose, people are careful of what they say & do. When there's little to gain or lose, such as in Twitter culture wars, people become savage, safe in the knowledge it won't really matter.
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