Open AccessEducation for Life
Author(s) -
Michael A. Simpson
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
curationis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2223-6279
pISSN - 0379-8577
DOI - 10.4102/curationis.v8i4.654
Subject(s) - soul , natural (archaeology) , aesthetics , clipping (morphology) , psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , art , history , philosophy , epistemology , linguistics , archaeology
I’ll do something rather dangerous today, and something very unusual for a major national expert in education. I’ll tell the truth about education. It’s not a pretty story, because it’s a story of murder. Soul murder; the persistent diminution of the natural spirit of inquiry; the solemn clipping of wings; nurturing bonsai brains, preparing not for growth and creation throughout life, but sedation for the long littleness of life. John Kenneth Galbrath once said: I f you can’t always comfort the afflicted — sometimes its useful to afflict the comfortable