The function of high school, then, is not so much to communicate knowledge as to oblige children finally to accept the grading system as a measure of their inner excellence. And a function of the self-destructive process in American children is to make them willing to accept not their own, but a variety of other standards, like a grading system, for measuring themselves. It is thus apparent that the way American culture is now integrated it would fall apart if it did not engender feelings of inferiority and worthlessness.
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare f… - Jules Henry
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare f…
- Jules Henry
To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinki… - Jules Henry
To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinki…
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture cap… - Jules Henry
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture cap…
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his chi… - Jules Henry
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his chi…
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading … - Jules Henry
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental function, degrading …
Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply … - Jules Henry
Up to a certain point anxiety is good, for it promotes action. Beyond that point we freeze any fixed attitudes or rush about without thinking deeply …
A competitive culture endures by tearing people down. - Jules Henry
A competitive culture endures by tearing people down.
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died… - Jules Henry
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died…
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, fo… - Jules Henry
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, fo…
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