Nope. But I am saying that the system currently in place is not only ill-equipped to institute any such ways, it is, more importantly, disinterested in instituting any such new ways.
Sometimes, when you are dealing with a machine put together for last century's needs, you have to just take the whole thing apart to even get a start on one that's going to work for the newer century.
Between teachers' unions, politicians, and academia's stranglehold on the thing called education, and all of their priorities in the thing, most of which have nothing at all to do with educating people, education itself has become entirely lost.
Asking those groups to fix the thing is pointless. They won't. They don't want it fixed. It's working just fine for them; it's doing for them exactly what they want it to do. It just happens to not be teaching anyone much of anything.
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Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Date: 16/7/11 18:41 (UTC)Sometimes, when you are dealing with a machine put together for last century's needs, you have to just take the whole thing apart to even get a start on one that's going to work for the newer century.
Between teachers' unions, politicians, and academia's stranglehold on the thing called education, and all of their priorities in the thing, most of which have nothing at all to do with educating people, education itself has become entirely lost.
Asking those groups to fix the thing is pointless. They won't. They don't want it fixed. It's working just fine for them; it's doing for them exactly what they want it to do. It just happens to not be teaching anyone much of anything.