One of my favorite books is The Gift by Lewis Hyde. In it, Hyde proposes that artists (and let’s use that term broadly) are forever going to be at odds with our culture because they live in a different kind of culture and economy. Hyde writes that today’s society is a commodity culture: I give [...]
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Schools as gift-giving cultures
Posted in Art and community, Artists, Children, gift culture, School culture, Schools, tagged Lewis Hyde on July 18, 2009 | 7 Comments »
