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Originally Posted by The Tway
so you had bad parents. not my problem, take it up with them.
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It's obviously not bad parenting if the child turned out alright.
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But he doesn't understand WHY, so he hasn't really learned. If I memorize the answers to a maths test and then pass it with full marks, have I learned anything? No, I didn't.
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When a child is young, whether they get shouted at or hit for doing something wrong all they know is that they've done something wrong and not to do it again. They don't know why, it's just wrong. As they grow up they understand and they learn why things are wrong and right, they make their own decisions and don't need to be punished anymore, they make their own mistakes.