Bonesteel was a tutor in the history of cartoons when a young student decided to complain that the subject matter in his class was offensive. He lost his job. There is an amusing song my Flanders and Swann about a cannibal child who doesn’t want to eat people. The father is appalled and there ensues a discussion between child and adult that is amusing and ultimately decisive in favour of eating people. It’s the way it has always been done and is the natural life of a cannibal.
The natural life of teaching is to engage with but not step away from students. The natural life of a student is to imbibe all learning and how to handle it and not decry hard lessons. Bonesteel lost his job because students are teaching themselves and choosing what they want to learn. That road always leads to tyranny.
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