started reading A Pattern Language off a recommendation from @kaybee and i was expecting it to be satisfying and illuminating but i wasn't expecting it to have that tasty anti-schooling shit
In a society which emphasizes teaching, children and students-- and adults-- become passive and unable to think or act for themselves. Creative, active individuals can only grow up in a society which emphasizes learning instead of teaching.
Quote from George Dennison, from Lives of Children: There is no need to add to the criticism of our public schools. The critique is extensive and can hardly be improved upon. The processes of learning and teaching, too, have been exhaustively studied... The question now is what to do.
To date, the most penetrating analysis and proposal for an alternative framework for education comes from Ival Illich in his book, De-Schooling Society, and his article "Education without Schools: How It Can Be Done"...
fr i was expecting "its gonna tickle my autism to know how high people design windows" and got "The nuclear family is not by itself a viable social form."
my conspiracy theory for a while has been that the inability of us normal folks to live somewhere that is entirely "ours"-- that we can repaint, redecorate, rearrange, reorganize, even revision-- does psychic damage on par with, e.g. the fear that you'll have the same dead-end job for 30+ years. more than tool-using animals imo we are cave-painting animals who will foam at the mouth, not even in the sexy way, if we can't make our walls the color we want them to be
