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On The Collapse of Childhood
From Joseph Chilton Pearce's "Childhood's End."
Thought for your day #6, Fri 9/1/00
page 170...."There are many other facets to the current collapse of
childhood. I have touched on the issue only briefly, but one thing is
clear, our schools have deteriorated because they must deal with damaged
goods. Most responsible for this damage is hospital childbirth; second
comes television. Next comes day care, which fosters television and is
a result of hospital childbirth. Premature schooling runs
fourth. (A fifth must wait a bit for discussion.) And as our
damaged children grow up and become the parents and teachers, damage will be
the norm, the way of life. We will habituate to damage. Nothing
else will be known. How can you miss something you can't even
recognize, something you never had?"
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