"Make yoga compulsory to improve childrens physical and spiritual health and development."
I can't help thinking that the people who'd benefit most from this proposal are yoga teachers. It's safe to assume that most schools don't have a current teacher who can teach yoga, so either they'd have to contract out or they'd have to get their teachers trained pronto.
But mostly I just think that this is barking. In and of itself it's restrictive (I prefer schools to have some flexibility of what they teach, within reason; if they want to teach yoga or aikido or whatever as part of PE, that's great, but let them choose), but most especially the use of the word "spiritual" has my batshit detector going off wildly.
Prove from (double-blind, well-controlled) studies in a few schools that yoga is beneficial and then perhaps you can advocate it for everywhere. :)
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I've now wasted an hour reading numerous blogs you have written in the last two months. You undoubtedly were raised here in England, and are undoubtedly young, based on the factors that you believe that just because you are "entitled to an opinion" that your opinion is valuable. It is most often, in most cases I read, not. Just asking questions, or expressing skepticism, is a curious exercise in self-psychotherapy but it is not by itself of value to others. Please spend more time evaluating each issue on the basis of what it may mean to society, not you. That you put words behind your opinions does not garner respect for you... nor does it enhance anything except your own listings. Please think twice. In Frank Herbert's Dune an important principle was to "speak only the deepest truth you can sense". Please. Thanks. Anonymous only because I like most others have litle time and now I won't waste further time reading your rantings. But good luck anyway. Cheers, a real person
Hmm.
Firstly, I will admit a large amount of bias as I love this Blog and check it frequently in the vain hope of finding new postings...
Anywhos, before I waste too much of anyones time, lets dissect the comment.
Surely after a brief check you could see whether it was worth reading or not. Taking an hour shows a very slow brain.
Young is quite relative - to me she feels old and grumpy at times... :-)
Do old people believe there opinions are any less valuable or is this just an attack on the young? See Jenny's Plato quote...
Whatever she writes, I assume she writes for pleasure. She does not force anyone to read it and its value to others is for them to decide.
Putting words and statistics DOES add weight to her opinions - this is a logical scientific approach - you might want to try it some time...
How does being Anon save you time? It shows you are embarrassed of your own opinions which is a stupid position to be in.
William Brooks
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