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Re:Librarians Are Dangerous by grandempire on Saturday April 19, 2025 @06:15PM (#43739917)
What seems silly to me is the particular cultural excitement and optimism around education and liberalism, and the way it was manifest in school, that I lived through as a kid and is now dead.
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Re:Librarians Are Dangerous by MattPalmer1086 on Sunday April 20, 2025 @06:45AM (#43742940)
We may be talking about different eras. I'm Gen X, I don't remember any great excitement or optimism manifested in schools of my time.

Quite the contrary; I think I was one of only two or three people in my year to go on to university. But then I was a huge nerd who was really interested in ideas.

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Re:Librarians Are Dangerous by grandempire on Sunday April 20, 2025 @07:47AM (#43743193)
Yes I think that’s right. Thanks for sharing. Kids of the 60s-70s who were outsiders because of their academic/nerdy interest became teachers and created a culture with the ideals they thought were missing. And that’s what I experienced.
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