08/12/26 05:38:16
Schools, in a western democracy, face conflicting demands: they exist in the present and yet
they are invariably compared with the past. We, the adults, have all been to school,
enjoyed success or suffered failure; our memories of schooling remain with us to colour our responses
to the education our children are receiving, to give us a criterion with which to judge and
criticize the more extreme new ideas of educational theorists. We want our children to be like us,
to respect our values, to move easily in our culture. We have a desire to do our best for them,
to give them the best possible start in life. But we tend to forget that our children are not growing up
in the world of our own childhood, that for better or worse things have changed,
that our time is not their time. In order for them to grow and develop fully we need to allow them
to live in the time of their own childhood, which we can share with them but never enter.
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