Posted by:
Eloimock
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Date: October 23, 2016 02:11PM
Yup they all do. Wrote:
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> One of the best books I've read on education is by
> John Taylor Gatto. He was teacher for 30 years in
> New York. The book is called, The Underground
> History of American Education: A Schoolteacher’s
> Intimate Investigation Into the Problem of Modern
> Schooling.
>
> He is a brilliant man that gets to the heart of
> the problem. I'd recommend the book, or at the
> very least googling his name and reading some of
> what he says. He answers the WHYs to the reasons
> behind failing education in a very reasonable
> manner. It defiantly made be revaluate how I look
> at education.
A century ago:
"In our dreams, we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have an ample supply…The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one, to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are. So we will organize our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops and on the farm." - General Education Board, Occasional Papers, No. 1 (General Education Board, New York, 1913) p. 6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Education_Board______________________
"We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity,..." -
"The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general co-operation as I had imagined. Instead, I saw a real aristocracy, armed with a perfected science and working to a logical conclusion the industrial system of today. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over nature, but a triumph over nature and the fellow-man."
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine