School Has Never Really Been About Individualized

It Is Not Necessary To Conceal Anything From A Public Insensible To Contradiction And Narcotized By Technological Diversions.

Childhood Is Analogous To Language Learning. It Has A Biological Basis But Cannot Be Realized Unless A Social Environment Triggers And Nurtures It, That Is, Has Need Of It. If A Culture Is Dominated By A Medium That Requires The Segregation Of The Young In Order That They Learn Unnatural, Specialized, And Complex Skills And Attitudes, Then Childhood, In One Form Or Another, Will Emerge, Articulate And Indispensable.

Children Are The Living Messages We Send To A Time We Will Not See. From A Biological Point Of View It Is Inconceivable That Any Culture Will Forget That It Needs To Reproduce Itself. But It Is Quite Possible For A Culture To Exist Without A Social Idea Of Children. Unlike Infancy, Childhood Is A Social Artifact, Not A Biological Category.

I Don't Think Any Of Us Can Do Much About The Rapid Growth Of New Technology. A New Technology Helps To Fuel The Economy, And Any Discussion Of Slowing Its Growth Has To Take Account Of Economic Consequences. However, It Is Possible For Us To Learn How To Control Our Own Uses Of Technology.

Everything We Know Has Its Origins In Questions. Questions, We Might Say, Are The Principal Intellectual Instruments Available To Human Beings.