Politics in our schools

[kahljorn]

I'm sure somewhere in the united states, and all over the rest of the world, you could find children who have been influenced by the ideas of the parents/adults surrounding them and are motivated by them/motivate them towards others and don't understand it(not all of them will be liberal, by the way). In fact, in general, I'd say kids don't really understand things anyway, but that is kind of implied by the fact that they are children.

Children are always influenced by adults, one way or another, and people always influence other people. There's very few solutions. One of them is to do what I suggest and actually teach children how to think properly, so their first response to an opinion is to think, "Hey that's an opinion not the truth! Now let's analyze it ;(".
There's alot of structural problems with the social atmosphere between children and adults, one of them is that children are taught that adults are ALWAYS to be respected, as if there's not any adults who don't deserve that. Anyway, telling children to always respect adults takes away their ability to think for themselves and inforces their likelyhood to rely on another person. It's not quite so literal nor is it guaranteed, but it has a real effect on their behaviorisms.
We need to pick apart what it is we are teaching, keeping in mind what it will actually teach. Teachings have unintended consequences and directly effects the psychology of developing children. As such, we need a system of education that takes these things in mind, that provides a reliable foundation to build upon, and anaylzes everything it teaches to be taught at the right time, the right place and to the right people. In this way you can alleviate many social and psychological problems that only hold back the flourishing of society.

In short I'd like to say that it is a child's job to absorb everything around them. That is how they acclimate to society, how they learn to talk and think and how they develop from tiny little creatures into adults. Obviously it's important to consider what is around them, but it's more important to give them the tools to recognize their surroundings.