We Be The Colours Of The Mad And The Wicked

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___ “So the youngsters have a high level of physical activity throughout their school years. School groups often go on expeditions: it’s common to see six-year-olds, with heavy backpacks, trudging along with older kids on hikes which … may last four or five days, and in quite forbidding country. As they move on into higher levels of school … much of the children’s time is allotted to training in fishing and hunting and survival skills, at the expense of basic educational skills. They are forced to learn not only the basic techniques but also how to improvise ecologically acceptable equipment in the wild: hooks, snares, bows, arrows, and so on. … The experiences of the children are closely tied in with studies of plants, animals, and landscape.” Ecotopia, Ernest Callenbach