Baby Island
by
Carol Ryrie Brink
"It's too bad we didn't get shipwrecked with a nice automobile or at least a pony and cart. But shipwrecks are so unexpected, you never know what you're going to need until it's too late."
Dumbing Us Down
by
John Taylor Gatto
"...slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."
"We were something special, we Americans, all by ourselves, without government sticking its nose into and measuring every aspect of our lives..."
"...a combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human..."
"Of all the pages in the human ledger, only our tortured country has warehoused children and asked nothing of them in service of the general good."
by
Carol Ryrie Brink
"It's too bad we didn't get shipwrecked with a nice automobile or at least a pony and cart. But shipwrecks are so unexpected, you never know what you're going to need until it's too late."
Dumbing Us Down
by
John Taylor Gatto
"...slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."
"We were something special, we Americans, all by ourselves, without government sticking its nose into and measuring every aspect of our lives..."
"...a combination of television and the stresses peculiar to two-income or single-parent families has swallowed up most of what used to be family time as well. Our kids have no time left to grow up fully human..."
"Of all the pages in the human ledger, only our tortured country has warehoused children and asked nothing of them in service of the general good."
3 comments:
Baby Island is a fun read. Like the quotes to ponder from Gatto's book.
Baby Island was my mother's favorite read growing up...so I bought it a few years ago and love it to! What a cute book.
I'll have to read the other quotes over a couple times...you know how it is with me. :)
Two that I have not read but now I have two to look upn and devour.
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