Monday, 1 August 2011

Does education cause mental illness?

A lot of conditioning happens through schooling. It comes through other
factors too but early on, with parents too tired from work to offer
their kids time and the TV/games console/other entertainment device the
substitute, the majority of formal person-on-person condition happens in
the class room.

I wonder just how much of adult mental illness is caused by early
childhood experiences and conditioning? Generations before had a
different teaching ethic. It was male epsitomology of mental health.
This is still common in private schools, or at least the elite ones, and
in the families which send their kids to these schools. It may be common
elsewhere. I'm just applying my own experiences of life to what I think
may be cause.

I wonder if the teaching of art and literature are also casual. This
trains the mind but in adulthood many minds are not allowed to express
this int he work place. Creativity is often frowned upon because
crativity can often be associated with being wrong in areas of work
where logic is required.

Music and stories also build idealism and desire for perfect
experiences. This is also formed by other forms of conditioning. Reading
Orwell at a young age may be a precursor to mental illness is adulthood
because the books teach people to question and to see differently, a
skill not valued and a thing which may change emotional responses within
hierachial systems.

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