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“Following the Prussian prescription of our first national school czar, William Torrey Harris — to alienate individual children from themselves in order to have their identities merge into a group identity — contemporary school planners treat children as categories: black, white, Hispanic, other; gifted and talented, special progress, mainstream, special education; rich, middle-class, poor, and with multiple subdivisions of each imaginable category, rather than as specific individuals with specific intellectual, social, psychological and physical needs.”
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
― Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
“The body is nothing to spend your life on. “You are what you eat” may be true on a very cold, chemical level, but it is not true on any other. Food is not the material that you’ll be bringing with you into the next place. Like the foolish man who tore barns down to build bigger ones, all the food you ever worshiped and served will one day be an abandoned tower. Every organ you’ve ever given careful and sustained attention to will one day stop working.”
― Broken Bread: How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger
― Broken Bread: How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger
“And most importantly of all, if education is to be effective it needs to be based on knowledge about the nature and purpose of human life—a true, or at least adequate, ‘anthropology.’ This knowledge is what the modern relativist thinks impossible.”
― Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education
― Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education
“We’re not machines, and food has more purposes than to fuel our mechanical bodies. When we turn our kitchens into labs and attempt to live as machines without tastes, we’ll find ourselves going against the grain of the way we were made, as well as thumbing our nose at the substances God made in such varied abundance.”
― Broken Bread: How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger
― Broken Bread: How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger
“I watch and I wonder and I think. I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people’s freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. “Buy a car,” it says, “and be free. Buy a boat and be free. Buy a beer and be free.” Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
Stacey’s 2025 Year in Books
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28 friends
429 books
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182 books
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129 books
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253 books
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739 books
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53 friends
38 books
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178 friends
43 books
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