Flannery O’Connor: “…too stupid to enter the past…”

~ Tim

“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning…our children are too stupid now to enter the past imaginatively. “

Flannery O’Connor, Total Effect and the Eighth Grade

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