Does Okonkwo Wear Wifebeaters?

So in the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe the main character, Okonkwo, constantly beats any of his 3 wives. The beatings do not stop with the wives though; he also beat his son for crying over the death of his brother, whom Okonkwo killed. One of Okonkwo's wives cut off a leaf from a banana tree, so he proceeded to beat her, as usual. It seems to me that Okonkwo has a plan on how to be a successful man in his society by getting his yams to prosper. Okonkwo has certain steps that he knows must be followed in order to be a strong man. When something happens outside of that plan, like Banana leaves being cut off, someone must be beat because it strays from Okonkwo's idea of efficiency and what is proper. Whenever something "different" happens around Okonkwo, he panics in his own way, and reacts by beating someone because that is the way of life that he has known. It's a pretty bad cause and effect sequence.

Lesson: REAL Learning happens outside the classroom

So I watched a TED talk where Gever Tulley talks about 5 dangerous that parents should let their kids do. Tulley explains how overprotective parents are actually hurting their kid's chances of staying out of danger by shielding them from real world dangers. When the ENVIRONMENT is constantly being adapted to fit the child, the kids  are at a loss when THEY have to adapt to their environment in a real world situation. This is exactly why children should be allowed to do a few minimally dangerous activities, like climb a tree. I for sure can attest that I learned 10x as many life lessons on a forbidden hike through a forest at night with my cousin than i could have learned through 2 years of reading a textbook. Occasions like this are what break through the dull barrier of "learning" in a safe environment where no risk is involved and manage to teach me valuable lessons that will I will actually remember. We have all had that mishap with a knife that our parents told us not to touch, and one bloody finger later, a life lesson is engraved: Don't touch sharp blades. No matter how many times my dad had told me to look left then right when crossing a street while I rode my bike in a park, he could not prepare me for when I went unsupervised bike riding across a boulevard and almost got ran over because I hadn't seen the red hand on the other side of the crosswalk. The contrast was clear: learning in a controlled environment didn't stimulate me enough to remember helpful lessons, but learning through actual experience, I never failed to remember. Gever Tulley is a genius