tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post379150484128720674..comments2023-03-30T07:59:35.962+02:00Comments on Small Wrinkles in Spacetime: Cultural fluxJohn Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11647833154827132967noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post-66310285370771536562007-04-21T22:41:00.000+02:002007-04-21T22:41:00.000+02:00Crusades, ambushes and armed advances - all seen i...Crusades, ambushes and armed advances - all seen in today's classroom - or at least the staffroom - where one out-of-joint nose jostles for position with the latest favour of the month...it's incredible how the power struggles of the youth are only overshadowed by the calculating struggles of the 'have I missed the boat somewhere along the line' and the 'in my last school I ...' type teachers in such establishments as would prefer to look (from the naive outsider's viewpoint anyway) as calm and nurturing, rich and reasonable, pillars of educational inheritance as the future will need. So too the crusaders of every generation - in fact, it seems to me that the lessons of warfare are simply learned and honed in the playground , in readiness for 'real' life in the scenario of 'work' later on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com