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Of Luddites, Learning, and Life
- kiba 17y ago"The reason for this is that you cannot have a democratic, indeed, civilized, community life unless people have learned how to participate in a disciplined way as part of a group. " As to opposed to what? There are many opportunities for interaction and working in society. How to interact with older people, work a job, honor contracts, and be well mannered to people and stuff like that? How can you learn that in a school filled with kids your age and the only adult is a teacher? Don't get me about democracy. Most of society isn't a democracy. We don't usually vote unless it is about asking government to do an half-assery job of something. There is certainly no voting in honoring contract, or choosing who to marry, sell, buy, what club to join, or who to associate with. We aren't governed by some crazy democracy that decide what to do for each facet of our lives. No, we live by trust, respect, and compromise. We choose to co-exist with each other, voluntarly.
- mgreenbe 17y agoChoosing whom to marry, what to buy or sell, and with whom/what to associate are, in fact, votes. Votes for a given lifestyle, place, thing, or idea. Or, even, person. School is valuable inasmuch as it civilizes us, though "houses of detention rather than attention" hits the nail on the head.