[MD] Fathers, Sons & Motorcycles

[MarshaV]

At 11:09 AM 6/16/2009, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:55 AM, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Lord knows I love this author so please do not take this the wrong way:
> >  Tee hee.  ;-)
> >
>
>
>Yeah I thought of you Marsha, especially at the line,
>"Overly-intellectualizing relationships is, to my mind, a way of
>avoiding emotional involvement. Why can't you guys just BE?"
>
>I watched the whole JT Gatto  video last night.  Did I mention he came and
>talked to our charter school home study program about 12 years back?  That
>was the first I'd heard of the Prussian system and Horace Mann.   Well not
>the first time I heard about Horace Mann, my ma used to brag that Horace
>Mann was an ancestor.  After hearing Gatto, I figured I had some duty in
>undoing my ancestor's screw up.  But I'd never heard that about Spinoza
>before.  Deep Ecology cites Spinoza as a philosophical inspiration.  Sigh.
>  Another hero dead in my heart.
>
>But what a fascinating diatribe on the purposeful killing of DQ in the young
>- young children, young nation.  It could almost make you think there is
>some sinister force at work in the world.


John,

I have no knowledge of a sinister force at work in the world other 
than our egotistical selves.

The one thing I can say about my late-in-life education, and that was 
it gave me the ability to move away from family patterns.  And even 
the fact that I, a woman, had a brain was a shift away from a family 
pattern.  My father and his father were Prussians.  So while I agree 
with Gatto's demeaning of our education system, I hated k-12 (it 
bored me to ears), when I was finally ready, it was a blessing.


Marsha











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