The cover story of the latest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education features an article by Terry Castle, English professor at Stanford University, about the case for children breaking away from their parents. The following paragraph is a quote from her article:
"The sentimental pathology of the American middle-class family--not to mention the mind-warping digitization of everyday life--usually militates against such ruthless candor. But what the Life of the Orphan teaches-has taught me at least--is that it is indeed the self-conscious abrogation of one's inheritance, the "making strange" of received ideas, the cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one's parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than ever, for intellectual freedom."
The article begins on page B6. It is available in the library.
Source: The Chronicle Review Section B of The Chronicle of Higher Education
May 11, 2012
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