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Ishmael daniel quinn review5/29/2023 ![]() He idealizes a tribal form of education, where everyone learns from the community what they need to survive. 2) Because kids are not working, they have access to their parents' funds (a lot more than they would probably have if they were on their own) and thus can spend lots of money on teen-marketed stuff. 1) It keeps people out of the work force until they are at least eighteen, solving the problems that would result from massive unemployment that would ensue if they were in it. ![]() Quinn's argument is that schooling in modern society is not about education, but actually entirely about helping business out in two ways. The gorilla, Ishmael, is really just a mouthpiece for Daniel Quinn's views, and the girl (Julie) does little more than say "Uh-huh" to Ishmael's two-chapter-long parables about life on alien planets. This is supposedly a novel about a young girl learning about human culture from a telepathic gorilla, but it barely qualifies as a novel. ![]()
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