Beagle_It_Quote - The Monday Morning Memo

“The brutal truth is, we’re scarcely ‘educating’ children at all… what we’re doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. Sure, vocational training is important, too, but it shouldn’t be confused with education. Education is for growth and fulfillment. A child’s mind is its living room, it’s going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. What a tragedy to furnish that room as it were only a cubicle in an office complex or a bay in a factory. There needs to be space for art and literature; a comfortable cognitive couch upon which to sit and contemplate the greater mysteries of life, death, be bop, and the space/time continuum. Presumably over a couple of frosted brewskis. Provided, of course, the imbiber is now eighteen or older and hasn’t inherited the addict gene.”

- Tom Robbins, novelist, in an interview with Abigail Holstein of the Harper-Collins website, March 30, 2009

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