Most teenage boys go to school not because they want to, but because they have to. They don’t see the point. Looking for meaning, they turn to social media.
There they hear a simple message: you are what matters most. Money, power, and influence are the goals. Everything else is weakness or a waste of time.
This creates the belief that teachers “haven’t achieved anything” and that school is useless for real life. Success is measured only by what can be seen from the outside. Inner values—effort, respect, care, connection—stop counting.
Young men are not taught to feel or to relate. It is easier to stay inside the “self” bubble, alone, chasing an ideal that promises fast results. In the process, they lose touch with the human side of life.
The way out is simple but uncomfortable. Movement, art, creativity, being with others. Dance, theatre, music, shared experience. These teach that the world is more than efficiency, dominance, or profit.
If we don’t teach boys to feel and to see another person, they will only learn how to take. And the cost will be paid not only by them, but by everyone around them.
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