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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Have a good family friend that is a GDS grad, incredibly intelligent and caring person.

The only thing that is odd, is his lack of maturity and his attachment to his mom and dad. This guy is a very good artist, very successful, financially and professionally but something feels so off about how he acts.

After reading this thread I can understand why.[/quote]

There is something inherently wrong in a school that coddles and allows students to call teachers by their first names.  Kids need boundaries between being treated like an adult and being a kid.  They need to learn that if you work hard you succeed and if you don't you fail.  This is a part of growing up and attaining maturity.  I've met lots of people like the one the poster described and if you talk to them long enough you will find something like GDS in their background, the are emotionally stunted, they never really grow up because they missed key experiences that took them out of being the center of the universe.

I work with kids and I am astounded by the way the talk to their parents, how they question their parents as if they are equal to them, and how the parents don't correct their children.[/quote]

What does this even mean?  It is completely incoherent.  What does a boundary related to addressing someone have to do with self reliance and learning to fail?  How does a school like GDS produce as many strong students without having exceptionally high expectations, and to meet these expectations a requirement that kids rise to the occasion.  I will take the GDS informality over all of the more formal/structured schools with mediocre academic environments.[/quote]

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