10-08-2012, 06:29 PM
I don't necessarily want the village to raise my child nor do I want to hide that child away from it. I think there's a important middle-ground. Do I want my child to carry on with my views, follow my morals, and for all intensive purposes become me? Of course, but that's a selfishly impossible notion.
More often than not the views of a society differ, collide, and following the masses is commonplace. More often than not the views and principles of society at large are a muddled mess. Of course I want my child to become apart of society, learn of other cultures, and participate in society because that's a healthy thing. I'm not going to lock them under the baseboards!
There's one thing the schools won't teach my child and I doubt society as a whole will either; that's to question and assess. I want to teach my child to create sound beliefs that they can defend. I want them to be confidant in their beliefs because they used sound methodology to support those beliefs. Again, this is something I doubt society at large will teach my children.
Society has a lot to offer. It's important to be integrated into it, to learn about other cultures, to learn of their principles, their beliefs, and to get along with everyone in a respectable manner. As a parent I believe my greatest responsibility it teaching my children how to think for themselves.
I think in a sense it does take a village to raise a child but there are some things I don't trust the village to teach my child and that's the tools and mechanisms for thinking logically.
Last edited by Admonish Misconstruction; 10-08-2012 at 06:39 PM..
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