Kay Hymowitz's "Ready or Not"

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This paper explains that Hymowitz traces the beginning of how America became an anti-cultural society that supposes children should grow up without help of the existing culture and even in conflict with it. The author of the paper points out that Hymowitz says that, once, parents were expected to educate their children by training them on ethics and ensuring that they control their antisocial whims; now, the children are naturally moral, and the adults are the problem. The paper says the book states that anti-cultural education is praising discovery learning, constructivism, lifelong learning, and a child-centered curriculum, cultivating an idea that children are making themselves more significant.

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"Hymowitz clearly remarks that human beings cannot live in a cultural isolation, as it is practically unfeasible and conceptual. It is a desolate thought that efficient merchandisers now fill the area that was once conventionally defended by faith and family. Something will always be filled in the empty space. Hymowitz takes special care in a fair and inevitable manner to depict the anti-cultural beliefs that saturates the portrayal of nuclear family in movies and television. She gives a striking ambivalence of earlier generation's responsibilities to the present day and substantiates the argument that a pessimistic attitude is almost in all of the parental power."

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