Sublime

But I worry that we have both oversanitized and overpathologized childhood, raising our children in the equivalent of a padded cell, with no way to injure themselves but also no means to ready themselves for the world.

the idea that schools can be ranked, like runners in a race, makes no sense.

Parents must rear their children toward that one day when the child begins to seek his or her freedom, when the insect, whether an ugly moth or a beautiful butterfly, seeks to abandon the cocoon. During the years between infancy and adolescence, the winning argument will have already been made. The winning argument will have been love; the losing a

Si, par exemple, je souhaitais qu’un garçon apprenne quelque chose des arts et des sciences, je ne me fierais pas au cursus habituel, qui consiste simplement à l’envoyer auprès de quelque professeur, où tout est professé et pratiqué, sauf l’art de vivre : observer le monde à travers un télescope ou un microscope, et jamais avec ses propres yeux ; é

“When the kids come home for a family reunion, I like to listen to their banter back and forth about the experiences they had growing up, and which had the greatest impact on their lives. I typically have no memory of the events they recall as being important. And when I ask them about the times when Jim and I sat them down specifically to share wh

autodidact,

Jean begins to see the problems with this attitude—that disabled people must always strive to be as “normal” as possible, to learn to walk

je veux dire que les étudiants ne devraient pas jouer à la vie, ni se contenter de l’étudier, alors que toute la communauté les entretient à ce jeu de luxe, mais la vivre réellement, du début jusqu’à la fin. Comment des jeunes pourraient-ils mieux apprendre à vivre, sinon en se lançant d’emblée dans l’expérience de la vie ? Je crois que cela exerce