<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I am not even familiar with the term 'forced socialising'. As an extreme introvert (99%ile) I would rebel but I don't think I would be traumatised. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Many in education and sociology believe in the Blank Slate - everyone is alike; everone has the same potentials. Stupid. Won't fact genetic facts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">What do you have to do to get a Master's in Education: have a pulse and a Visa card.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Not trying to offend anyone!! Just telling you my experience.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:54 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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On 13/07/2020 15:11, billw wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">ben wrote; <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Socialising
is not a crucial part of </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">everyone's
development.</span></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Of
course I have to disagree with this. A kid who is
home-schooled and has no interaction with his peers otherwise
is going to be a social moron. However, suppose the Fall and
Spring terms, 2020-2021, is canceled. That is far too short a
time for any significant disability to happen. It would take
years.</span></div>
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Of course.<br>
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There's social development and there's socialising. I was reacting
to the concept of 'forced socialising', which is a horror to me.
Every human needs a degree of social development - recognising other
human's faces, learning to respond to them in a way that doesn't get
you beaten up, generally developing Theory of Mind, that kind of
thing. Beyond that, though, nobody should be forced to socialise.
Some won't mind, some will hate it, some will be traumatised by it.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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