[Redbook1:89-90][19691029:1830d]{Captains
and Kings -- continued}[29th October 1969]
Wednesday 29th
October 1969
6.30pm [continued]
I find it
very difficult to be an efficient, in the sense of officious, prefect here,
where I believe people -- or adults, anyway, as many of us are -- should be
allowed to get themselves accidentally killed rather than being forced to be
careful. For one thing, it is an
inadequate preparation for life -- or is it?
Perhaps in the old days people who had been regulated obeyed the
regulations even when they were no longer there, like the geese whose pen was
opened before they woke up (they wouldn't go through until it had been shut and
re-opened); but today our intrinsic attitudes are so different that we should
be more likely to reject the regulations.
Many of the
problems in a school like this stem from the fact that some of the people need
a framework within which to operate, while some need total freedom -- and those
who think they need freedom or framework are not necessarily right about
themselves.
I cannot
understand the movement for total democracy in schools -- or at least, I can
understand it, I think, but I cannot agree with it. How can a transient group of immature
amateurs possibly know more about education than relatively permanent
professionals? On the other hand they
may know more about themselves, therefore they should be allowed to advise.
I find
these Dialogue groups frustrating in the extreme -- there is so much to say
that one would either want to speak for three hours without a break or not at
all -- and there are ten of us (I think) with only two hours! We keep going round in circles.
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