Friday, August 23, 2013

Emasculating a generation of boys

This is certainly true for my boys, who love to read, and who love to compete physically:
If you give boys books about adventure, and heroics, and honor, and decency, they gobble them up. If you foist on them relatively stagnant books about navel-gazing, they will zone out and become disengaged from education. Wrap that up with games that deny boys the opportunity to play rough (in a fairly safe way), and compete, and learn how to win and lose, and you will have emasculated a generation.

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