Edusiness

So we're to have toddlers toddling among the steel rolls and die cutters. Doesn't that sound like more fun than we can handle? That requires massive investments in securing all sorts of workplaces. As a nice side effect workplaces will become really secure for employees as well as environmentally clean. But that is not what this about. On top of the security investments having children at workplaces will reduce the productivity considerably because the employees are more often distracted. And you can hardly have one teacher look after 30 children if they are not tied to their chairs and desks. All this will be so outrageously expensive, why bother?

I don't have any arguments here that I find very convincing, yet I am convinced. I think it is a bad idea to isolate our children's culture from the grown up's culture. I think it is cruel and stupid to force children to learn lots of abstract information while keeping the meaning, the grounding, and the significance of this learning from them. And most of all I think it's a bloody shame for us and for our children to spend so little time with each other. Somebody working full time may see his children three hours a day. Instead we waste our time on producing stupid stuff that nobody really needs. We should provide a place for our children in our lives, a place big enough to accommodate them.