On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:14:35 -0500 (EST) cgreen7223 at aol.com writes:
> H.L. Mencken wrote in his book "Minority Report":
>
> "John Milton, in his famous 'Tractate of Education,' laid stress
> upon
> the need to purge the young of infantile and adolescent concerns and
>
> concentrate their attention upon the ideas and interests of
> maturity.
> Any adequate education, he argued, must so influence them that 'they
>
> may dispose and scorn all their childish and ill-taught qualities to
>
> deal with manly and liberal exercises.' It must be manifest that the
>
> over-accentuation of athletics in American colleges works powerfully
>
> against this transformation. It is impossible to think of games
> among
> young men and women save as reversions to an earlier stage of
> growth. A
> really intelligent educational policy would try to discourage the
> taste
> for them, just as it tries to discourage the taste for making
> mud-pies."
>
> Chris Green
> http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=44901401
>
I take it that Mencken did not make the football team.
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