NP - I should never have encouraged my son to read

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 08:56:09 CST 2011


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/parenting-facts-and-arguments/i-should-never-have-encouraged-my-teenage-son-to-read/article2263717/

"My son's friendship with Dostoyevsky has been a disaster for any kind
of authority I might have wielded. A father wants simply for his house
to run in a peaceable and agreeable fashion. The Grand Inquisitor and
the Underground Man have subverted that ambition more surely than any
radical political program could."



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