Kids are hardwired to love learning, they will never stop asking questions and exploring the world.
Schools quash that curious spirit. They put kids in a boring, prison-like, highly regimented environment that seeks to teach discipline and obedience to the status quo. Don't think, accept your role in the capitalist machine. If you are bullied, no one will help you, but if you fail to complete work you will be punished. Most of all, get used to not owning most of your time.
Take note of this and try to rekindle your child-like curiousity and love of learning. Ask yourself, do you still have questions about the universe you forgot to ask as a child? Read about the planets, the stars, microbes, machines. But most importantly, do it at your own pace and do it because you still have questions. Not to pass some test, but for you.
Gonna dedicate my life to getting underpaid to teach government propaganda to children. Couldn't be me cause I had a breakdown and dropped out of early childhood education courses when I realized the grim truth
It really is disturbing how much of early childhood ed is just behavior management. They barely emphasize it in college, but going into the field you sink or swim based on your classroom management skills. Kindergarten teachers terrify me. You shouldn’t be able to take a 5 year old and train them to sit at a desk for extended periods of time.
That said, I’m a reading teacher and I refuse to read propaganda books. Critical literacy and culturally responsive pedagogy are where it’s at. The representation in my classroom library reflects the population of the school I’m working in and I’m always happy to find a book that a kid can see themselves in. Covid has absolutely fucked these kids over and any chance I have to help them enjoy reading I will take it