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> "One obvious problem with the SweetFarts philosophy of education is that it is more suited to producing a generation of barbarians and morons than to raising
by rpbertp13 16y ago
> "One obvious problem with the SweetFarts philosophy of education is that it is more suited to producing a generation of barbarians and morons than to raising the sort of men who make good husbands, fathers and professionals. If you keep meeting a boy where he is, he doesn't go very far."
> "Whom would you prefer to have shaped the boyhood imagination of your daughter's husband—Raymond Bean or Robert Louis Stevenson?"
I'm surprised how the article emphasizes being a 'good husband'. What if it said "good wives, mothers and professionals"?
- ryanwaggoner 16y agoUmm...it's an article about getting boys to read and the long-term effects of meeting boys where they are. I'm guessing they didn't emphasize being good wives and mothers because boys rarely grow up to be wives and mothers.
- rpbertp13 16y agoThat is clearly not where I'm coming from. I'm just trying to point out how an analogous article today that would make such emphasis would probably strike most people as inappropriate or chauvinistic. Don't you agree?
- astine 16y agoThat's because people associate 'good wife' with a subservient wife. Feminism has encouraged women to act in their own interests rather than their families interests for some time now and the values have sunk into the culture. 'Good husband' doesn't have that connotation and for better or for worse, people still think that husbands should care for their wives and children and be respectable people themselves.
- ergo98 16y agoI had the same reaction. It seemed adorably quaint, as if I was reading something from the 50s. In fact the whole article gave me that impression: "It's all them new fangled gadgets I tells ya" I don't feel enlightened having read that. The "here is my anecdote and it proves everything that I am going to say" aspect struck me wrong.