Teaching Children Outdated Information
Parents teach their children to be successful; but not every parent are very successful at their teaching. The only teachings that proves useful are time-invariant principles that don't get outdated; yet, parents, being normal human, aim for the current fad. What they don't realize is the fad being outdated after their children grows up.
Let's assume [1] that artists are successful, and earn a lot of money, around 1560 AD in Venice, Italy. It was still the Renaissance; alas, in a decade or two, it's no longer in Renaissance. The sun is soon to set. Yet, the parents, grown up regretting not becoming artists but peasants, want their children to do better than them, sending them to art tutors to become artists. Alas, by the time they grow up, artists aren't successful anymore, the sun has set, and the world moved on to, say, scientists and researchers, as the new tomorrow. The parents had just made a really, really wrong choice that made their children utterly unsuccessful.
It's a choice we face. We can't predict what would be successful in the future, so we can't teach our children to be artists, doctor, dentist, pharmacist, whatever that now earns a lot of money; we never know if they no longer earns a lot. Yeah, probably not doctor, doctor are almost always in lacking, seen from the past few decades. The future? Unknown. Probably we have robots that can do better job at simple stuffs, we don't know. And only those experts and complicated and complex operations cannot be replaced.
Instead, if you teach your kids time-invariant principles, it's not likely to be outdated. For example, teaching your kids to fail at your school exam; if they never fail once, they deserve a lecture, to understand that, they need to fail, in the real world, to be successful. That if they don't fail early, when they come out, they would be in real trouble. Or in some cases, one heard that people who never failed in primary school, when failed in secondary school for the first time in their life (in their teens), feel shame so strongly (babies and small kids don't feel shame, most only develop shame in their teens, with exceptions of course) that they just cry out loud. They cannot fail, their parents cannot have them fail, their teachers cannot have them fail, and they cannot have themselves fail. That's the real failure. The inability to accept failure is the real failure. Teachers and parents have been teaching the wrong thing so far, if they had not let their kids fail now and then, and climb back up, to struggle up the road of obstacles. The failure should not be too overwhelming that they can't climb back up, but it should not be too smooth that they never encountered even minor failure either. A healthy dose of failure now and then is acceptable, and makes your kids healthy too!
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Notes:
This is a wrong assumption (the money part), but oh well, for the sake of the example, we'll "assume" forcefully, even if it's wrong. (In fact, only few original artists are successful, and most probably don't earn a lot, as far as one's concern, only enough).