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Dec. 2nd, 2021 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timeletsA headset with a prompter:
“A particularly ironic twist of “The Three Languages” is that it is the father himself who sends his son away to study and selects the masters, only to be outraged by what they teach his son. This shows that the modern parent who sends his child to college and then is furious about what he learns there , or about how it changes his child, is by no means a new arrival on the scene of history.”
--- Bruno Bettelheim. “The Uses of Enchantment.”
Then he had to sing a mass, and did not know one word of it, but the two doves sat continually on his shoulders, and said it all in his ear.
-- Grimm's Fairy Tales. The Three Languages.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/025.txt
“A particularly ironic twist of “The Three Languages” is that it is the father himself who sends his son away to study and selects the masters, only to be outraged by what they teach his son. This shows that the modern parent who sends his child to college and then is furious about what he learns there , or about how it changes his child, is by no means a new arrival on the scene of history.”
--- Bruno Bettelheim. “The Uses of Enchantment.”
