Nah - cant be bothered :shrug:
A little indoctrination is good though! That's what I believe. And, speaking of children, what happens when your children come to resent you and wish that you were dead? Then only the state can come in and perform the task of guiding them towards normalcy. You take too much of the task upon yourself, and it won't work in the long run.
To much reliance on one's parents leads to morbidity. It's better to ally oneself with one's contemporaries, forming a despotic cadre by which to crush any who would resist. The state exploits this impulse, it is true. But one can get around that.
:shrug: Well, somebody has to. And parents have long since bantered off their own responsibilities in that regard.
Anyway, school isn't really that important to anyone anymore, should never have been really (a fact that even thick, loser footballers like Troy Deeney seem to grasp better than the average school teacher or @depEd.gov budget racketeer. Or maybe not .. :rubchin: ).
But, as I say, that might actually be the whole trouble.. :-\
A close friend of my missus - a university scholar and PhD dr no less - recently talked about “if” her 8 year-old daughter starts her period.
When asked what she meant by “if”, she relied “well I don’t want to make any assumptions”.
So there we are. Parents are actually imparting their beliefs and values on their children more than ever. Just not in the way you might mean.
Philip K. Dick? He's all about that sort of thing; how people have become tragically alienated from humanity, especially their own.
M's exchange is remarkable in the fact that it takes place, not in a professional, progressive, politically correct setting, like a workplace. Rather that it happens in a (presumably) intimate, private environment between one "close friend" and another.
This "Dr." is such a thorough-going professional that she can no longer express herself as an normal human being, rather than something inhuman and somewhat sinister; a machine, regarding ordinary human facts of life and biology, in confidence to a chum. The tragedy is in the fact that there's no longer any real difference between the two; when it comes to who your friends are, everyone is like that.
By contrast, Deeney rejects the idea that representatives of the political/corporate "machine" (celebrities, colleagues) can be more suitable role models than actual biological, socially-contracted examples, like parents, children, family; even friends. Although, he does weaken his argument by framing this "biological, socially-contracted" obligation as "work": "If my kids look up to a man bigger and better than me, then that’s me not doing my job." :-\