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Greenman on Childhood
June 11, 2010
Children everywhere… play to have fun, not deliberately to educate themselves, but education is the side effect for which the strong drive to play evolved.
-Peter Gray, Pscyhologist
-Peter Gray, Pscyhologist
“It is a strange time. We live in an age when our children may know far more about bizarre people we care nothing about or a cartoon world than the workings of their own back yard — that marvelous ecosystem teeming with life. They may know more about, or rather have more information on, exotic zoo animals and farm animals than the snails, squirrels, birds, worms, and bugs that live outside their windows.”
“Young children are perpetual tourists without much life experience, truly strangers in a strange land. They are developing their minds and bodies at such a rate that they are literally new people with each sunrise. Their backlog of life experience is so slight that each day, each new place, each old place, brings surprises. Their courage rises and falls like the tides.”
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I agree with everything in the article except for the part about farm animals. Children and even adults are becoming disconnected from their food sources. Agricultural education is important so that youth can know and appreciate the importance of agriculture in their lives. Many think that milk and other food products come from the grocery store, for instance.
Farmers and ranchers make up a group of the largest land holders in the United States. Most are excellent stewards of the land and provide habitat not just for domestic animals, but for wildlife as well. Quite frankly, everything I learned to know and love about wildlife came from the time I spent on my Grandparents' farm.
It's vital that educators focus not just on environmental education, but our sustainable family farms. When we lose our connection to the the land; we lose ourselves.
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