Why You Never Truly Leave High School -- New York Magazine
Interesting article, but it's kind of long. Basically what it's saying is that what happens to us as adolescents sticks with us more/longer than any other time in our lives, and American high schools are pretty much the worst environment to be stuck in for this period of development. One quote from it, "But if humans really do feel things most intensely during adolescence, and if, at this same developmental moment, they also happen to be working out an identity for the first time- "sometimes morbidly, often curiously, preoccupied with what they appear to be in the eyes of others as compared with what they feel they are," as the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote- then it seems safe to say this: Most American high schools are almost sadistically unhealthy places to send adolescents."
I'm not sure how schools and experiences for teenagers in other countries compare, but when I read this, it was like an "aha" moment, and makes sense to me. What do you guys think?
Also, it made me think of this clip from a Family Guy episode- like maybe we shouldn't be laughing...
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Interesting article, but it's kind of long. Basically what it's saying is that what happens to us as adolescents sticks with us more/longer than any other time in our lives, and American high schools are pretty much the worst environment to be stuck in for this period of development. One quote from it, "But if humans really do feel things most intensely during adolescence, and if, at this same developmental moment, they also happen to be working out an identity for the first time- "sometimes morbidly, often curiously, preoccupied with what they appear to be in the eyes of others as compared with what they feel they are," as the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson wrote- then it seems safe to say this: Most American high schools are almost sadistically unhealthy places to send adolescents."
I'm not sure how schools and experiences for teenagers in other countries compare, but when I read this, it was like an "aha" moment, and makes sense to me. What do you guys think?
Also, it made me think of this clip from a Family Guy episode- like maybe we shouldn't be laughing...
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