Re: Groping toward the future

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:21:53 +0100 (MET)

Mike,

when I read your returning to the angel of history, being stormblown
backwards into the future while gazing with horror on the wreckage of the
past

somehow it pleases me more to picture an orientation towards the future
that is in line with the proleptic, anticipatory confidence of parents and
teachers that is such a crucial ingredient in children's actual learning.

Another of those
>fundamental intuitions about human experience
that
>can be found across a very broad range of human cultural conditions

Eva