I like your approach there, Jason. I also like what Gibran says about parenting & children in "The Prophet." They aren't "ours." They aren't "for" us. They do not "belong" to us. We do not "own" them. But we are responsible "to" them & their unique unfolding.
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Replying to @coachnateb @cognazor and
Aw man, I wish this was a more prevalent belief in our society. Seriously wishing for a children's rights movement to follow the women, racial minorities and LGBT community.
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Replying to @autotrnslucence @coachnateb and
I'm literally tearing up thinking about this. Our society is sick because we habitually and institutionally abuse our children. This needs to change.
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Replying to @danlistensto @coachnateb and
What is the first step? Healing and deinstitutionalising is a slow process, and fraught if we aren't certain of our own abilities. I don't have children and don't expect to for a while. What to do in the meantime?
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Replying to @autotrnslucence @coachnateb and
I wish I knew. I also don't (and most likely won't, for a long time if ever) have children. In the interim I've been recommending Ivan Illich "Deschooling Society" to everyone who I think will bother to read the thing. http://learning.media.mit.edu/courses/mas713/readings/DESCHOOLING.pdf …
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Replying to @danlistensto @autotrnslucence and
Could you possibly summarize it in a tweet length?
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Replying to @cognazor @autotrnslucence and
haha ok that's a challenge, this isn't a summary but an impression to encourage you to read it. The institution of school, as we know it, does not serve the people and was not intended to. It is an institution of social engineering designed to produce obedience.
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Replying to @danlistensto @cognazor and
It has its roots in Prussian and Anglo-American military industrial complexes and aimed to supply nation state powers with soldiers and workers who could empower the nation state at the cost of the people's autonomy, creativity, and spirituality.
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Replying to @danlistensto @cognazor and
another great thinker and writer on this is John Taylor Gatto https://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
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Replying to @danlistensto @cognazor and
I've read both of these (Gatto when I was in high school, I think - I very much felt like I was in a gilded cage). My thinking on this was to attack the institution of a prestigious college degree - because if that is out-competed, everything leading up to it doesn't make sense.
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yes, that seems like a useful vector to attack. not only does it seem like high leverage but the amount of obscene harm done to young people by student loan debt is now a full blown crisis in its own right.
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