Getting to Hogwarts: Michael Oakeshott, Ivan Illich, and J.K. Rowling on ‘School’
Oakeshott’s words were prescient and remains salient as ever The world in which many children now grow up is crowded, not necessarily with occupants and not at all with memorable experiences, but with happenings; it is a ceaseless flow of seductive trivialities which invoke neither reflection nor choice but instant participation. A child quickly becomes…