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I love this guy. Give him a day off and he goes off looking up the history of words. I am so proud of his commitment to irreverent curiosity. I say this particularly because this wasn’t always true; I wasn’t proud of myself at 17 https://t.co/LuGMvM0xvo
I was curious then too, but back then I think I was made to feel guilty about it. How dare a child have the audacity to pursue his own interests at the expense of what other people tell him he ought to be focusing on? The gall, temerity, insolence, arrogance, impertinence!!
I wonder when I will stop being upset by the memory of this injustice. Over the years I’ve gotten more zen about it, learned to see the humor in it. But at the core of it is a story about a system that does (some?) kids wrong, and I think some angry tears will always be warranted
A common response I get to this is “What happened to you was unfortunate, but you are an anomaly. The system works well for most people.” I don’t agree with this. Every child is a creative genius; we just crush most of the caterpillars and then pretend butterflies are elusive
To me, school today is like medicine before people learned about germ theory and hand-washing. Creative souls die every day and most people shrug the way they must’ve when women and children used to die in childbirth. Leaves from the vine... https://t.co/EnrzXNXgt1
Every child is a natural dancer, poet, salesperson, yogi, musical thespian (see thread) until they get thrown in prison. We celebrate the few that survive with their creativity intact https://t.co/6KMGO3lVs3
@visakanv part of the injustice is that school insists it's for your benefit even when it isn't https://t.co/ya3DCZQtCS