Because you can do something is not a good argument for doing it.
Yesterday I spent valuable minutes doing something that I knew was wrong—diddling with the print-styles for the school's website; I did it because I'd been dared. Dared in the sense that my headteacher said, "you [ie me] can't do [in HTML] what Word can do".
Well I can. And did. But that's what's wrong—we can all paint, doesn't make us Goya.
The real trick, and it's not a trick, is to know what to paint; to be brave enough not to do what others would have us do.
How do you teach people not to be taught?
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Giving in to peer pressure is not good, but taking up something as a challenge is not bad if it is something you would enjoy doing anyway. That is self satisfaction.New comment
The trouble is that it wasn't peer pressure, it was me showing off.
I knew what I was doing was stupid, I was irked into doing it because of the suggestion that I couldn't. I should know better than to behave like that.
neil