A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

@bodhipaksa What a profound statement from a high school student. May we have more of this wisdom from our young people come forth.
@EveyJo @bodhipaksa I have a 17 year old and a 21 year old. I think we assume that, as older folks that we're wiser, but I am continuously reminded that my kids are sometimes wiser than I am.
@catpower @EveyJo My 15-year-old daughter constantly astonishes me!
@bodhipaksa @EveyJo and in the corporate world, this is why reverse mentoring , (younger workers teaching more senior workers) is so important. We really don't know it all, no matter what we think. It would be great if we applied that everywhere.
@catpower @bodhipaksa It works both ways and I believe this should be applied both ways everywhere.
@bodhipaksa @catpower @EveyJo Precisely what CONServative governMENt is threatened by & why they’re working feverishly to end/reverse it. The more ignorant, the easier they are to manipulate & control. #GOPThreatToDemocracy #GOPfascists
@catpower @EveyJo @bodhipaksa I am regularly reminded that I was smarter and wiser at that age than I was later on, or now.
Perhaps looking freshly at things, without having been exposed to 'takes' for a lifetime, makes for better outcomes. A bit like why a visiting alien commenting on human things would be worth listening to.

@EveyJo @bodhipaksa The kids are doing great. It's adults who are failing to meet the very, very low expectations.

Don't look to the kids to save us. In our system, they're about 50 years away from the majority of positions of power.