Iqbal Latif writes: ...under constant surveillance. They (children) have no private time or private space and are disciplined if they try to assert individuality in the use of time or space. That leaves them 12 hours a week out of which to create a unique consciousness. ..In such circumstances children are even afraid of intimacy: The children I teach are uneasy with intimacy or candor. They cannot deal with genuine intimacy because of a lifelong habit of preserving a secret inner self inside a larger outer personality made up of artificial bits and pieces of behavior borrowed from television or acquired to manipulate teachers. Because they are not who they represent themselves to be, the disguise wears thin in the presence of intimacy; so intimate relationships have to be avoided. Another theme which Gatto explores is the separation of children and old people from the mainstream.He thinks you learn more when you are in harmony with differently-aged people than when you are with equals. Children and old people are penned up and locked away from the business of the world to a degree without precedent: nobody talks to them anymore, and without children and old people mixing in daily life, a community has no future and no past, only a continuous present. In fact, the term “community” hardly applies to the way we interact with each other.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 05:03:23 +0000
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