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Comment by thaddaeus | Hacker News Reader

What an overly dramatic article written by a whiny author. It's not disrespect, you are no one special.

"I don’t know what I would have become if my gifts had been acknowledged and nurtured rather than ignored." Boohoo. Two tears in a bucket. No one in this life owes you anything. The only person that ignored your gifts was you, and now you are making excuses for yourself. If you had worked harder in school, then you would have nurtured your gifts.

Respect is earned, and after read that post, I can't imagine anyone worth their salt giving the author any respect.

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I think you missed the point of the article because the author states that he had very good scores at tests, so at least "working harder at school" wouldn't have helped with what he is complaning about whatever it is.

However I agree that this article sounds whiny, especially when it comes to the phrase you quoted. But if we look at the bigger picture the author is drawing, we can acknowledge that Education is not only about college students, it's also about students in primary and secondary school and even high school. At these levels students won't have the critical-thinking and I-will-do attitude you are talking about, they need guidance from the system. They need that the system teach them how to respect themselves by example by respecting them in the first place.

At least part of school is to prepare students for the bullshit of the real world.

Even ignoring the "Did you get the memo about cover sheets for the TPS reports?" level of bullshit people still face a lot of bureaucracy at work and school should be helping them learn ways to deal with it.

So you suggest that we frontload that abuse onto our youngest members, just to make sure they learn to succeed in that environment and then have an incentive to perpetuate it when they get to where we are?

Perhaps if everyone were educated in a way that respected children as human beings, when they grew up, no one would stand for bureaucracy and TPS reports, and we'd finally be rid of them.

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