Nick Hutchison and a colleague discuss why American schools skip teaching connection, self-care, and internal dialogue. The system chases test scores while ignoring play and interaction, leaving colleges to handle mental-health crises among students and athletes with almost no preventive programs in place.
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It seems like the education in the United States could also use a little bit of an update. Why aren't we learning how to connect with other people? Why aren't we learning to ask better questions and have better internal dialogue?
It is interesting because lately I've been looking a little bit at how self-care fits into maybe a school system, right? And I think one of the things that I see in our social construct here in America, it's about achieving a score on a test. Don't be book smart. Use the books to learn the knowledge, but learn the wisdom from life. That's what kids are missing. We have book knowledge. What life wisdom. And that comes from play. It comes from interaction. And it comes from these working better with our mind. And in colleges, you see mental health issues all the time because the pressure is so high. And there's not many programs that help college students, especially not athletes in colleges, to take better care of their mind.