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L'infant i els seus enemics

Emma Goldman

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  • APAEmma Goldman. (n.d.). The Child and its Enemies [L'infant i els seus enemics]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/emma-goldman/the-child-and-its-enemies
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  • ChicagoEmma Goldman. The Child and its Enemies [L'infant i els seus enemics]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/emma-goldman/the-child-and-its-enemies.

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De què tracta

Sobre l'educació com a fàbrica d'obediència: l'escola, la família i l'Església com a «enemics» de l'infant.

Context i història

Del 1906, i en línia directa amb l'Escola Moderna de Ferrer i Guàrdia, que Goldman defensaria després del seu afusellament. La pedagogia llibertària posterior en ve en bona part. És un article breu, no cap llibre: la seva mida al catàleg no és cap defecte de la còpia. Goldman va fer bona part de la seva obra en aquest format, a la revista «Mother Earth» i en fulletons.

Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.

Com comença
What is more astonishing is the fact that parents will strip themselves of everything, will sacrifice everything for the physical well-being of their child, will wake nights and stand in fear and agony before some physical ailment of their beloved one; but will remain cold and indifferent, without the slightest understanding before the soul cravings and the yearnings of their child, neither hearing nor wishing to hear the loud knocking of the young spirit that demands recognition. On the contrary, they will stifle the beautiful voice of spring, of a new life of beauty and splendor of love; they will put the long lean finger of authority upon the tender throat and not allow vent to the silvery song of the individual growth, of the beauty of character, of the strength of love and human relation, which alone make life worth living. And yet these parents imagine that they mean best for the child, and for aught I know, some really do; but their best means absolute death and decay to the bud in the making. After all, they are but imitating their own masters in State, commercial, social and moral affairs, by forcibly suppressing every independent attempt to analyze the ills of society and every sincere effort toward the abolition of these ills; never able to grasp the eternal truth that every method they employ serves as the greatest impetus to bring forth a greater longing for freedom and a deeper zeal to fight for it. That compulsion is bound to awaken resistance, every parent and teacher ought to know. Great surprise is being expressed over the fact that the majority of children of radical parents are either altogether opposed to the ideas of the latter, many of them moving along the old antiquated paths, or that they are indifferent to the new thoughts and teachings of social regeneration. And yet there is nothing unusual in that.…

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