There were not as many responses to the 2nd post as the first. But, I think that something is starting to develop.
(Purpose.) What's wrong with the way public schools are used?
The first thing to fix about schools is the PERCEPTION of the value of schools, whether the kids think they can REALLY be successful, and to take it seriously. If you dont
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For others, school serves the purpose of indoctrinating children into an us/them paradigm of vicious programmed ignorance. Formal education teaches that social restrictions are necessary to maintain a "free" society. People walk around with a caged mind thinking that their subjugation is the highest form of freedom.
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A lecturer of mine put it well the other night; you need to learn the rules, to learn how to conform, before you know how to break the rules. Young James Joyce wrote conforming to the rules, and once he had done that he was able to break the rules and give us Ulysses.
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For what it's worth I got no farther into Joyce than I did into Rand ;)
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When I finally decided I really wasn't cut out to be an intellectual, I decided to go back to the criteria of my youth, if I enjoy it, I read it.
It doesn't have to be fiction, but since I don't play video games, watch almost no TV and rarely go to movies, it's my relaxation and escape...heck life has enough challenges to spend my down time analyzing Swift :D I mean think about it, Dickens and Burroughs wrote to get out of debt..so OK Tarzan may not be true literature, but hopefully you get my point :D
Besides there is always *talk_politics* if I need to stretch my thinking/reasoning capacities :D
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