Saturday, December 11, 2010

Because peeing is a privilege, not a right.

Bathroom Ban Leads To Riot At NYC High School


It is inhumane to deny someone their right to perform an essential bodily function. (And yeah, ONE open bathroom for 2400 people is essentially denying a human necessity.) Oh wait, that's right, teenagers aren't human.  How could I be so silly?!  

Reason #157* why compulsory institutionalized "education" for children and teenagers does more harm than good. (Read more here.)
*arbitrary number

I'm just glad some of them stood up.  Too bad it doesn't happen more.

"Education… now seems to me perhaps the most authoritarian and dangerous of all the social inventions of mankind. It is the deepest foundation of the modern slave state, in which most people feel themselves to be nothing but producers, consumers, spectators, and fans, driven more and more, in all parts of their lives, by greed, envy, and fear. My concern is not to improve ‘education’ but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and to allow and help people to shape themselves."
John Holt (source unknown)

"The idea of painless, non-threatening coercion is an illusion. Fear is the inseparable companion of coercion, and its inescapable consequence."
How Children Fail (1964)
John Holt
 
No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.
Escape from Childhood (1974)
John Holt

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