can I tell the grain from the chaff?
What is the difference between "respectful but firm" and "a thin veneer of sweetness over punitive nastiness"? I know there is one, I'm just panicking a bit!
posted by birdfarm @ 1:35 PM
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Previously...
(the ten posts prior to this one)- ok, back to winnowing
- No winnowing, just Tibet
- winnow, winnow, a lovely word
- winnowing 2: not necessarily deciding
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- survival skills, the epilogue
- it's a warm morning but suddenly i'm cold
- idea...
- rules & procedures
- FYI: "How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind"
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The Scariest Thing You'll Ever Read
"From the Land of Frankenstein"
Now that you know...act to RESIST and TRANSFORM this system that keeps us gullible, obedient, and ignorant.
¡Si se puede!
"From the Land of Frankenstein"
John Taylor Gatto explains the origins of the US school system:
"The Prussian mind...held a clear idea of what centralized schooling should deliver: 1) Obedient soldiers to the army; 2) Obedient workers for mines, factories, and farms; 3) Well-subordinated civil servants, trained in their function; 4) Well-subordinated clerks for industry; 5) Citizens who thought alike on most issues; 6) National uniformity in thought, word, and deed.
"The area of individual volition for commoners was severely foreclosed by Prussian psychological training procedures drawn from the experience of animal husbandry and equestrian training, and also taken from past military experience.
"Prussian schools delivered everything they promised. Every important matter could now be confidently worked out in advance by leading families and institutional heads because well-schooled masses would concur with a minimum of opposition."
--John Taylor Gatto
"The Underground History of American Education"
Chapter Seven
Now that you know...act to RESIST and TRANSFORM this system that keeps us gullible, obedient, and ignorant.
¡Si se puede!
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