We tell young people that education means training for professions that are destroying the world they're growing up in, we convince them they can't survive without joining those professions, and then we wonder why those young people are so anxious and depressed. 🤬

Something I'd love to do: teach mini-courses ostensibly about library research but actually meant to (re)introduce students to curiosity, creativity, & the sheer joy of learning about impractical things. I think so many students have had all that curiosity crushed out of them.