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‘The Interview’: Robert Putnam Knows Why You’re Lonely - The New York Times
Lulu Garcia-Navarronytimes.comParadoxically, many of these disciplinary policies are akin to the progressive vision espoused by eugenicists like Karl Pearson, justifying harsh discipline as a means to “close academic disparities.” Schooling becomes standardized testing without creative expression, arbitrary rules without room to breathe, Black Excellence without Black Joy.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The problem with substituting cultural consumption and active leisure for rest is that one person’s recreation is another person’s work. If museums, libraries, and baseball stadiums are to stay open, then security guards and librarians have to work, and baseball players have to play.
Judith Shulevitz • The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
