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Sunday, January 22, 2012
Capturing Antiquity :: Culling Young Minds
Many moons ago I picked up a 1912 copy of Arnold and Beatrice Gesell's book The Normal Child and Primary Education. I wasn't particularly interested in the content (though it did contain this gem: "Mumps disfigures a child's behavior long before it does his face.") so much as I found the cover very striking. On it was a rendering of a work by Lucy Fitch Perkins, entitled Strengthen the Little Hands That Must Carry on the World, but it looked much creepier than the title would indicate.
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What really stands out in capturing Antiquity Culling Young Minds is how easily historical stories can nudge younger audiences into seeing the present in a certain way, kinda silently too. When old concepts show up without the right context they might, even if unintentionally, reduce independent thinking instead of widening it. Sure, there is real worth in studying antiquity but it still needs some kind of counterbalance, like, critical conversation alongside modern perspectives. And with today’s academic pressure, some students start hunting for little workarounds like Online Exam Help In Los Angeles, which honestly brings up bigger concerns about how learning is being approached. At the end of the day education should spark curiosity, not shrink it, no matter what topic is on the syllabus.
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