Why do we make our kids go to school, suffer, then when they graduate, they have to suffer looking for work, then when they are working, have to suffer the toils of work?
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MRSHINYSHOES
ANSWERS: 17
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I agree!!! You people who do this are BAD parents!!! No wonder the kids drop out from school and do drugs :0 I hope you all burn in hell!!!!!!!!!!
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Because, it keeps us distracted, while we await our biological shells to decompose and wither with time. It would be absurdly boring to sit around doing nothing for 80 years, while you wait for your body to wither, wouldn't it? Might as well do something while we wait, and yes, we can't do anything positive simply because resource is scarce, and competition is a necessity among the members of the species. Cheers.
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What is life without suffering? Would it be better to let them fluff around all day, learn nothing, produce nothing, be involved in nothing? Life *is* hard, but it'd be harder still if we gave up.
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If you know a better way to make money please god tell me and save me the trouble.
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Because it is what our parents did to us!!
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It's called life. If you don't agree, next time you have a child, just leave him/her where they dropped and forget about them forever. They might survive, they might not. Many species do that. Most humans are more highly evolved.
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Putting a kid through school is one of the most rewarding and dare I say it - sacred - experiences you can possibly give them.
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School never made me suffer.If I enjoy school, I enjoy studying too;so, looking for a work is not difficult.If that is not difficult, then you don't toil later because its the job that fits your qualification. So the only thing parents need to do is make the children understand that school is not a hell to go.And then, everything goes fine all by itself.
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Without an education, we all would we living in caves again. We all have to suffer, a little, in order to achieve a goal. Exercising to lose weight is a good example. This is life as we know it today. Is it worth it? absolutely.
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Well, it's all a matter of perspective, isn't it? Why not value education for the sake of personal progress and a further understanding of the world? Why not find joy and satisfaction in working and doing your part to make the world better? The best thing a parent can teach their child is balance. Education and work are valuable tools and worthy pasttimes, but there should also be time for rest, for play, fo family and for appreciating the world. It's not that school and job don't have a place in our lives, it's that too often we forget to leave time for other things.
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My answer is simple. So they can be successful and get the hell out of my house, so that my toiling and suffering can be used for funner things.
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Cos we done it without computers.
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So that they can live. If nobody produced, everybody would die.
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I see what you are trying to say mrshinyshoes, unfortunately I do think your answerers do. You seem to be in disagreement on how our society runs, why we do what we do and why is everything money based and failure supported. And you are right to question this for I have also pondered the same things. Everything in society is so "bigger and better" keeping up with the Jones's. Work, pay taxes and spend the rest...(repeat) forever. You maybe wondering "What's the point?" Is this all there is to life?
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With this, I can tell you were raised from a poor family, like me. And like me, they did everything so that you shouldn't need. You don't want your kids to have to scratch blood, tooth and nail to make it out there. You want the best for them, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. We were poor, the old house we lived in did not have double walls, the wind would blow snow in across our bed through the cracks when it broke through the paper glued to the wall by flour. I am very proud of my upbringing, I had the best parents anyone could ask for, and still do. They could not afford to send me through colledge, as most could not in those days. But I never did without. I joined the army and got a sharp shock into reality from the pampered world they tried to give me. I clearly see where you are coming from.
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Because we want them to have a good life. Things that come to us without any toil or sacrifice are rarely valued as highly.
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Because that's "Just what you do". Conventional education and the capability to work day after day at a job you don't necessarily enjoy are valuable skills, but much of that value comes from the fact that it's nearly impossible to make it in the world today without a diploma and a willingness to sell yourself out. Most people guide/force their children in the direction of that whole process because that's what they've been taught will bring the most success and happiness.
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