Modern man could find no clearer expression for his dissatisfaction with the
world, for his disgust with things as they are, than by his refusal to assume,
in respect to his children, responsibility for all this.
It is as though parents daily said: "In this world even we are not very
securely at home; how to move about in it, what to know, what skills to master,
are mysteries to us too. You must try to make out as best you can; in any case
you are not entitled to call us to account. We are innocent, we wash our hands
of you."
──"The Crisis of Education"