Wendell Berry reading memory replug.
"According to the new norm, the child’s destiny is not to succeed the parents, but to outmode them; succession has given way to supersession"
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"According to the new norm, the child’s destiny is not to succeed the parents, but to outmode them; succession has given way to supersession"
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"And this norm is institutionalized not in great communal stories, but in the education system. The schools are no longer oriented to a cultural inheritance that it is their duty to pass on unimpaired, but to the career, which is to say the future, of the child"
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"The orientation is thus necessarily theoretical, speculative, and mercenary. The child is not educated to return home and be of use to the place and community; .."
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"he or she is educated to leave home and earn money in a provisional future that has nothing to do with place or community"
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"And parents with children in school are likely to find themselves immediately separated from their children, and made useless to them, by the intervention of new educational techniques, technologies, methods, and languages"
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"School systems innovate as compulsively and as eagerly as factories. It is no wonder that, under these circumstances, “educators” tend to look upon the parents as a bad influence and wish to take the children away from home as early as possible"
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