What Happens Next: A Gallimaufry

melancholic romantic comic cynic. bi & genderqueer. fantasy writer. sysrae on ao3.

Life is going to present to you a series of transformations. And the point of education should be to transform you. To teach you how to be transformed so you can ride the waves as they come. But today, the point of education is not education. It’s accreditation. The more accreditation you have, the more money you make. That’s the instrumental logic of neoliberalism. And this instrumental logic comes wrapped in an envelope of fear. And my Ivy League, my MIT students are the same. All I feel coming off of my students is fear. That if you slip up in school, if you get one bad grade, if you make one fucking mistake, the great train of wealth will leave you behind. And that’s the logic of accreditation. If you’re at Yale, you’re in the smartest 1% in the world. […] And the brightest students in the world are learning in fear. I feel it rolling off of you in waves. But you can’t learn when you’re afraid. You cannot be transformed when you are afraid.

Junot Díaz, speaking at Yale  (via malinche)

Those final four sentences are something else.

(via genericlatino)

You cannot be transformed when you are afraid.

You cannot be transformed when you are afraid.

(via delilahsdawson)

(Source: badmuser, via delilahsdawson-deactivated20161)

  1. internalflow reblogged this from feeb
  2. belosers reblogged this from notfuckingbeige
  3. larkandsparrow reblogged this from okayophelia
  4. pachucocholosychundos reblogged this from glowgirl
  5. conquerwarrior reblogged this from theshatterednotes
  6. raisingyourjoys reblogged this from heavensarcher
  7. languagedemon reblogged this from cimness
  8. glassofpumpkinjuice reblogged this from solioquy
  9. solioquy reblogged this from solioquy
  10. iamwhatismissing reblogged this from talithan
  11. jdp1593 reblogged this from badmuser
  12. kkismymoniker reblogged this from strawwolf
  13. strawwolf reblogged this from owlsongsandgoblinlaughs
  14. owlsongsandgoblinlaughs reblogged this from curvingwherewhen
  15. curvingwherewhen reblogged this from eusonyme
  16. inspery reblogged this from crosscountrymiracles
  17. badmuser posted this