I've started reading anti-totalitarian books to our kids. We read Animal Farm, and then we read the children's novel The Long Way Home, and now we're reading another children's novel, North to Freedom (which evidently has been published under three different titles in its history). I think it's important for our kids to be able to recognize tyranny and be aware of the reasons to resist it.
Tonight we read this passage:
That was what happened when you did not stop to think. In the camp, thinking would have made life unbearable, but when you were free, it was necessary, though something of a strain when you were not used to it. (p. 48)
For how many modern Americans does thinking make life unbearable? For how many is thinking a strain?
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