[Morrigoon]

This makes me think.

We feed our kids all this info about farms and farm animals, as there's a sort of traditional precedent that makes us link up children's education and farms. But really, doesn't that come from the days when lots of children were growing up ON farms, and it was only natural they should first be taught about their environment? "But kids LIKE farms," the culture at large responds. Hmm... do they like farms because they genuinely are interested in farming, or because it's what we've been teaching them about and producing toys for all this time? If we were to replace farm themes in early childhood toys, what WOULD we replace them with?

Fun to muse on. Not particularly useful, but fun to think about.