Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman
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This is a really important work for anyone wanting to understand West Asia - and particularly the role Zionism and European colonialism played in dividing up the region - in a more comprehensive way. The variety of Arab thinkers and actors Makdisi we ...more | |
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As delightful as the first time I remember reading it in sixth grade. I love the clever word play, the story, and the whimsical relationship Juster has with storytelling and language more generally. | |
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“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
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“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
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Here is the link to the book:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14...
I bought it a few years ago at Libririe Antoine. I don't know if they still carry it, but you could ask them to order it if you cannot find it in a library. And here is one of my very favorites:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50682
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Thank you!
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Yes, I am in the process of doing so!
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a great, great read :)"
One of my students just read this so I put it on my to-read shelf!