http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2007/09/29/education_do_we_really_need.htm
September 29, 2007
Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?
Robin Good
Be Smart, Be Independent, Be Good?
Edited by: Luigi Canali De Rossi
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How do we educate our children to be active, critical thinkers and not dumb passive consumers serving someone else interests? For however strange this may sound to you, it may have been “marketing” itself to bring us the terrible education system most civilized countries have adopted in the last century or so.
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School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently.
Well-schooled kids have a low threshold for boredom; help your own to develop an inner life so that they’ll never be bored.
Urge them to take on the serious material, the grown-up material, in history, literature, philosophy, music, art, economics, theology – all the stuff schoolteachers know well enough to avoid.
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Robin discovers that education makes big children. I’ve been reading Gatto for a while and that’s why I think we have to end gooferment “public” eddycation by running skoolz!
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