Juan’s Reviews > In Defense of Childhood > Status Update

institutionalized education = domestication of childhood

it is to these socially sanctioned sources of domestication beyond home and family, which are burying parents and children alike beneath a mountain of fear, competition, material excess, and the endless drive to conform and succeed, that we now turn.

the domestication of childhood

The taming of the child

Childhood is in trouble. The relentless forces of modernity are pressing in from all sides, slowly but surely squeezing out the novelty, the independence, the adventure, the wonder, the innocence, the physicality, the solitude--the juice, if you will--from the lives of today's children.