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Blake Boles
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The Other Significant Others
Here are my favorite quotes from Rhaina Cohen’s 2024 book, The Other Significant Others.
It’s a long, dense, and fairly academic read—not one I’d recommend to most casual readers—but it’s punctuated by brilliant observations and summaries.
Challenging these social norms is not new, nor are platonic partners the only dissidents. People who are feminists, queer, trans, of color
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“The most practical function of modern schooling is to give children a safe place to exist while their parents work. A less flattering way to say this is that school is free childcare.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
“School began as an institution that rescued young people from degrading labor. Now schools are the perpetuators of degrading labor.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
“For far too many, schools are places where kids are forced to do things that don’t really matter, exclusively for the benefit of adults, when they could be doing something better with their time. In this way, schools are the new child labor.”
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
― Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?: the case for helping them leave, chart their own paths, and prepare for adulthood at their own pace
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“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.”
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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
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