![]() It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-predigested books and ideas.marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you.it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. 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.” ![]() 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. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. ![]() We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. ![]() “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. ![]()
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