KILL THE PAST!

Consequently, and still from the perspective of the child who had to become a 'normal' adult well integrated into the family order, it was also necessary to convince children, in their innermost being, that learning how to live required going through formidable physical and psychic training intended to make them better. Such were the principles of a perverse education, practiced in particular in Germany, that consisted in making children acknowledge that the corporal punishments inflicted by adults made them better people and allowed them to combat their own vices in order to reach a 'sovereign good' and, better still, to want to achieve that goal.

opened my mobile kindle app for the first time in a while and it immediately started harassing me about le morte d'arthur