In Defense of Favoritism - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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"In a consumer society," Ivan Illich says, "there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy." Today's culture tries to spare kids the pains of sibling and peer rivalry, but does so by teaching them to channel their envy into the language and expectation of fairness—and a reallocation of goods that promises to redress their emotional wounds.
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A better way to integrate fairness and favoritism for kids is to show how opportunity and outcome are part of a process.
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