Currently Reading: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen

I’m reading along with Cindy (Ordo Amoris) and friends as they blog about this book. So far I’ve read the Introduction.  

Here are a few of my favorite passages:

“If we can but deaden the imagination, then, we can settle the child down, and make him that solid, dependable, and inert space-filler in school and, later, a block of the great state pyramid.”

“The bigger the school, the more dangerous and upsetting a single act of imagination can be.”

“Since we must have children, we should be sure to subject them to all the most efficient and humane techniques to fit them for the world in which they will live, a world of shopping malls all the same everywhere, packaged food all the same, paper-pushing all the same, mass entertainment all the same, politics all the same.”

I’m looking forward to the rest of the book.  I appreciate Mr. Esolen’s sense of humor making this book funny and convicting at the same time.