Suspension of Disbelief is worth reading. It’s stuff like this that makes Slashdot worthwhile, even if it’s rare.
I suspect the artificial extension of childhood grew out of the fact that because modern jobs are more complicated than they used to be, we need more years of schooling before we can go out and compete in the workforce. The fallacy there, though, is that just because we need more years of schooling, doesn’t mean that the natural age of “human maturity” has gone up. So we end up with 17-year-olds having to go to court to establish their right to criticize their teachers on their own time.
Good stuff, thought-provoking stuff.
Lay off, people.
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