Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Nathan | Revamping Education_ Teaching Kids to Relax vs

23 Sept 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube video (Dr Nathan | Revamping Education) in which a speaker argues that primary education should teach relaxation techniques and stress-management rather than rote factual memorization (example given: capital of Czechoslovakia). The speaker emphasizes that children (and adults) face greater stress exposure today, so teaching coping skills early would be more useful.

I think that our education should start in primary school with learning relaxation techniques and how to deal with this. That would be way more useful than, I don't know, learning the capital of Czechoslovakia and memorizing that. Because our children are being exposed to incredible amounts of stress, I think more than they have in the past. Not just children, all of us are being exposed to tremendous amount of stress.