Against killing children
In the 1600s, John Amos Comenius, who is often referred to as “the grandfather of modern education” called schools “the slaughterhouse of the mind,” where he saw them devoted primarily to the boring and sometimes brutally-enforced study of Latin by “stuffing and flogging”. He went on to argue for education to follow “the lead of nature. A rational ... See more
Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
they (particularly the young) wondered if the system was corrupt, if the mass society and its consumptive drive wasn’t a kind of fascist dictator and the public duped to give it the duty it called for. Particularly, the segment of young people now roaming university campuses began to wonder if conformity was actually just another word for manipulat
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will cal
... See moreBill McKibben • Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
so the standards of cheapness and convenience, which are irresistibly simplifying and therefore inevitably exploitive, have been substituted for the standard of health (of both people and land), which would enforce consideration of essential complexities.