It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game, eh? If you already know the rules before you get to school, it seems logical that you’re a better player from the first day.
Exactly. And it works in reverse as well. I’d like to see an ethnographer or a phenomenologist study depressed students in affluent schools who chase high GPAs and test scores with little willingness to follow their own interests and questions. I wonder if they are aware of their own dehumanization or if they actually come to value it as adults. Cheating oneself is almost as tragic as cheating others.
Interesting study and connection to history, Terry. Playing the game of school seems like a prerequisite for academic success.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game, eh? If you already know the rules before you get to school, it seems logical that you’re a better player from the first day.
Yep...seems like a recipe for inequities.
Exactly. And it works in reverse as well. I’d like to see an ethnographer or a phenomenologist study depressed students in affluent schools who chase high GPAs and test scores with little willingness to follow their own interests and questions. I wonder if they are aware of their own dehumanization or if they actually come to value it as adults. Cheating oneself is almost as tragic as cheating others.