I wrote and published this post in the Journal Servir of Indatwa n’Inkesha School (GSOB) in 2007

The youth, also called adolescence or teenage is recognized to be the age of discovery, dreams, illusions, joys … It is characterized by a crisis of the thirst of self-determination. Some people attain to call it the age of madness, because the young do not want any correction or leadership from a pretending or pretended grown up, they want to rule themselves. But psychologically speaking, they still need a lot of help so that they can get effectively what their vision is.

Among the deals that they find hard or difficult to bear is school. School is for the some kind of jail. They therefore envy liberty and freedom. School hinders them to reach that freedom and that liberty.

The teenagers simply hate or, let us say, develop obsessional hatred and fear for the four walls and the big mirror that probably reflects their ugly and dull images. That obsessional fear is what psychologists would name phobia. But what kind of phobia is it and what does consist of? Continue reading →