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Much of our childhood experience subtly reinforces the belief that there are categories of grown-ups, starting with teachers, that share in none of the childβs fears. We may, at a certain age, need such an illusion to make the world feel stable enough. But we pay a high price in loneliness for this faith in the face value of figures of authority.
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corresponds with who they want to be.
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But how could they be good AFs for their children if their minds could invent ideas like these?
Kazuo Ishiguro β’ Klara and the Sun: 'A masterpiece.' Sunday Times
Good children become the keepers of too many secrets and the appalling communicators of unpopular but important things. They say lovely words, they are experts in satisfying the expectations of their audiences, but their real thoughts and feelings are buried, then seep out as psychosomatic symptoms, twitches, sudden outbursts, sulphurous bitterness
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βDid you take it?β said James, looking at the children one after the other. Abruptly he seemed remote and stern, and desirable because of this; so Thomas turned away in shame.
Sarah Perry β’ Enlightenment
