At
Oxford University, sometime back in the Time Beyond Recall, the conferring of
the degree of Master of Grammar was accompanied by presentation of a birch rod
as symbol of office, and by the ceremonial flogging of a whipping-boy with that
rod by the new Master.
Ferula
A
ferula, or ferule, is a flat piece of wood that expanded at the end into
something pear-shaped with a hole in the middle; it was used to strike the hand
or mouth, raising a horrible blister. Aren’t we homosapiens highly creative in
the ways we find to be vicious to each other?
Original Sin
Locke:
believed the child to be a tabula rasa, upon which society imprints its
image.
Rousseau: believed a child is born naturally good.
Original Sin: holds that a child is born evil and must have the evil socialized out (or beaten out) of him.
[excerpted from the book by U.R. Bowie, Here We Be. Where Be We?]Rousseau: believed a child is born naturally good.
Original Sin: holds that a child is born evil and must have the evil socialized out (or beaten out) of him.
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