RE your quote about the progressive school...
You know what’s really fascinating? The intellectual incoherence revealed.
On the one hand, let the kids loose to experience their feelings and impulses. ON THE OTHER HAND, train them to be docile and conformist. It’s a perfect recipe for making crazy people.
And no matter which side of the paradox the kids are operating on, academic attainment is not part of the craziness. So they end up confused AND ignorant.
Easier to turn them into slogan-chanting freedom-hating monsters.
“And no matter which side of the paradox the kids are operating on, academic attainment is not part of the craziness. So they end up confused AND ignorant.”
And can therefore be flim-flammed into voting for a despicable scoundrel like, oh, I don’t know, the Kenyan Commie?