/lit/ - Literature

>>22274494
How many whaling expeditions have you been on?

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>>22082047
You need a book to explain that everyone* is perfectly capable of education, curing their “dumb”

*the mentally impaired might be barred from votes, no?

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>>21013202
It isn’t just the pop culture

>>20895940
>Are schools to blame?
Yes.

>>20831563
No. Too much schooling has killed it

>>20784004

>>20766329
Would like some confirmation that someone is reading this besides me. It’s a short and important work, for all of you.

>>20764796
Everyone knows it, deep down.

Appropriate picture OP. It isn’t the children, it’s the school system itself.

>>20728948

>Two institutions at present control our children’s lives: television and schooling, in that order. Both of these reduce the real world of wisdom, fortitude, temperance, and justice to a never-ending, nonstop abstraction. In centuries past, the time of childhood and adolescence would have been occupied in real work, real charity, real adventures, and the realistic search for mentors who might teach what you really wanted to learn. A great deal of time was spent in community pursuits, practicing affection, meeting and studying every level of the community, learning how to make a home, and dozens of other tasks necessary to becoming a whole man or woman.

—Dumbing Us Down, John Taylor Gatto

It’s a comfy read, for those looking for that sort of thing.

>>20689202
How about a nice short book.

>>20687677
NO.

>>20477611
You say “teachers” like this is even a comprehensive list. A few professors of some prestigious universities make some upper prole cash to live comfortably, but you’re an idiot ideologue and ignore the vast majority who make chicken feed and are continually fighting a managerial chaff department for their meager benefits and school supplies. The fight against unions is real, tard.

But, get rid of New Deal unions. They suck, they’re corrupted. Further, get rid of the Prussian workman factory we call public schooling. It kills free healthy independent people’s spirits

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