Chapter 25: What to Tell the Children
1. Here
are the key messages you should be communicating to your kids:
a. Education
is a lifelong process.
b. School
is primarily an employment process (but not designed to prepare you to earn
money or real wealth).
c. School
is a game of winners and losers. Always have compassion and humility when you
are winning and the courage to get back up when you’ve been knocked down.
d. Learn
to accept challenges. If you start, commit to finish.
e. Schools
are great places to learn how to find information. As long as you are going to
be there, make the most of your time at school. Depth of knowledge is far more
important than getting the “right” answers in order to pass a test. And you can
achieve this depth only if you know where to go for information. This skill
will serve you for the rest of your life, regardless of the jobs or professions
you choose in the future.
f. It’s
better to look stupid than to be stupid. People learn more by willing to make
mistakes – they are primary way we learn.
g. Take
advantage of being young. There are adventures and opportunities that are best
accomplished while you are young. Plenty of time remains after school to be a
serious, career-oriented stick-in-the-mud.
h. Seek
the One “Right” Answer – but don’t stop there! Figure out what answer the
teacher expects, but understand that there are no right answers in life; there
are only multiple paradigms.
i.
Believe in yourself. Don’t take the grade too
seriously. Your grades in school don’t determine what you are able to do in the
future.
j.
Tell your children that no matter how they do in
school, they are very special to you, and you will always love them.
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