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This part really hit me: "With lessons like the ones I teach day after day, is it any wonder we have the national crisis we face today? Young people indifferen
by JayNeely 17y ago
This part really hit me:
"With lessons like the ones I teach day after day, is it any wonder we have the national crisis we face today? Young people indifferent to the adult world and to the future; indifferent to almost everything except the diversion of toys and violence? Rich or poor, schoolchildren cannot concentrate on anything for very long. They have a poor sense of time past and to come; they are mistrustful of intimacy (like the children of divorce they really are); they hate solitude, are cruel, materialistic, dependent, passive, violent, timid in the face of the unexpected, addicted to distraction."
- balding_n_tired 17y agoGreat. We can afford fancier toys, but otherwise how does this differ from pretty much any time in the past or anywhere else? Were we less violent before mass schooling came in after 1848? Somehow we managed to make our writ run from the Alleghenies to the Pacific, partly by purchase, largely by violence. Were we less conformist? A reading of Tocqueville would suggest not.