Of course I am joking and also referring to old Thomas Becket but it just shows how far away the current Archbishop of Canterbury is from basic common sense.
Guess what? now he is fulminating against the parents who push their children to do well. And oh?? the parents who push children are as the same people who push children into feral gangs.
I presume the alternative for them is to find and develop in their own space. I quote
In an interview published today, Dr Rowan Williams said: "Children live crowded lives. We're not making their lives easy by pressurising them, whether it's the claustrophobia of gang culture or the claustrophobia of intense achievement in middle class areas."
Children were not given the opportunity to grow up at their own pace, said Dr Williams. "What is lacking in children's lives is space. They are pressed into a testing culture, or even into a gang culture; they are bullied and manipulated until they fit in, they never have any time to develop in their own space," he told the Daily Telegraph.
We have already explored that when children are faced with pushes and high expectations, they reduce anti-social behaviour and can do well.
I am seriously not surprised that he is becoming more and more irrelevant in this day and age if this is the kind of drivel he is pushing out. And perhaps he should resign in favour of somebody who is a parent and knows the value of families, parents and pushing children to do their best.
Remember, children are not a vase to be filled but a fire to be lit. To light fires, you need to bring firewood close together, and then set fire to the wood. You do not have a fire if you just let firewood lie scattered around.
All this to be taken with a grain of Piquant Salt!
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