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futurebird in talk_politics

The purpose of school.

Mar 19, 2010 11:42

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 ( Read more... )

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Emancipation vs. incarceration sophia_sadek March 19 2010, 23:57:54 UTC

Education can be viewed either as a form of emancipation or a form of incarceration. For someone like Frederick Douglass, it was essential to emancipation. He fought for his own education and advocated for his own children to attend the same school as "white" children.

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.

Re: Emancipation vs. incarceration anfalicious March 20 2010, 00:01:25 UTC

As much as one may feel that school is indoctrinating and incarcerating, if you're unable to read, write and think critically, you will be much more susceptible to indoctrination and incarceration.

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.

Re: Emancipation vs. incarceration geezer_also March 20 2010, 04:05:20 UTC

You say that like Ulysses was actually a good read.

For what it's worth I got no farther into Joyce than I did into Rand ;)

Re: Emancipation vs. incarceration anfalicious March 20 2010, 11:59:40 UTC

True literature is rarely "a good read". It might be enjoyable, but only if you like challenges.

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anfalicious March 20 2010, 00:01:56 UTC

Sush with your cynical pragmatic viewpoints :P

ccr1138 March 20 2010, 03:39:26 UTC

I think schools SHOULD be devoted to creating well-informed and productive citizens of the republic. What they actually ARE is prisons used to warehouse kids so the parents can work.

geezer_also March 20 2010, 04:06:39 UTC

A pragmatist and a realist right in a row :D

futurebird March 20 2010, 05:57:14 UTC

Nice!

anfalicious March 20 2010, 12:00:27 UTC

Which is unfortunately why they're prisons. SPEND SOME FREAKING TIME WITH YOUR KIDS PEOPLE. XBOX DOES NOT COUNT.

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