Discuss....

[faustus]

"Childhood is the need to be sheltered from adult secrets."

I have no attribution - seems to be Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (New York: Delacorte Press, 1982).

Comments

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Yes, but whose need? A child's or the adult9s) taking care of the child?

[drasecretcampus.livejournal.com]

In RL it seems to be adult need in typical Foucauldian othering - you're a child so I'm adult. Of course, it poses as being for the child's benefit.

I think I need to go seek context.