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The Giant Lie - Resisting Treatment
Flexibility vs. Stamina
Would you send your child to a school that insisted all children should stay short — no taller than four feet — because every building in it had four-foot-tall doorways? Would you still send them if they enforced this by breaking children’s legs at the growth plates, ensuring they never grow beyond the mandated height? Would you live in a society that supported the schools' methods because businesses, homes, and institutions were also designed around this 4-foot limitation? What would you say if the success of this education system is measured by how willingly a child’s growth plates are stunted? The ones who stop growing first get A’s. Those who take more effort to stop growing get B’s. The system is built on optimizing fracture techniques — scientifically validated methods for ensuring compliance.
If you could stomach all of that, what do you think would happen if you were a student whose bones would not break? We can assume, if this school is modeled on the western education systems, it would look something like this.
You show up. You endure the pain. You even try to weaken yourself by not drinking milk or taking calcium to make it easier for them. Yet, your bones remain strong and you continue to grow. At no point do any of the adults question the system; instead, they put all their…
