The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy

[Unschooling]

“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” ~ Washington Irving

The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy

Childhood’s End

"The “facilities,” as we call them, are deployed in the illegible landscape of a demolition derby, separated from all the other activities of daily life, which themselves have reached a culminating state of meaninglessness: big box shopping, national chain franchise food installations, strip malls of empty storefronts, parking lot wastelands, nothing that will excite a child’s imagination with emotions other than bewilderment, anxiety, and aversion. The “teaching” that supposedly goes on in sc…