While reading Doomed to Fail: The built-in Defects of American Education by Paul A. Zoch I came across this quote from William James,
"The Sovereign source of melancholy is repletion. Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; Our hour of triumph is what brings the void."
This quote really illuminates the recent exponential explosion of need for anti-depressants in our society, doesn't it? We are a society that spends our time and money striving to eliminate struggle in all things, and in nothing moreso than education. Challenge and rigor are dirty words used by elitist, sadomasochist families who want to live vicariously through their children instead of letting them languish their way into a media-soaked, consumptive frenzy of ignorance, depression, and unhappiness like everyone else...right?
-EH
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