Sometimes when I’m trying to break down the modern process of education, I think of it as a train. Catching this train is a crucial element of our society, hence we often approach it with the utmost consideration, sometimes choosing tickets for our children before they have even left the womb. It is part of the law that we must catch this train so it’s important that we’re on the right one. It is common for humans to stay on this train for over 10 years.
Through this time all we know is the interior of the train and its corridors, we may gaze out of the window from time to time, but we rarely get the chance to get off and stretch our legs. Often the train goes fast and before we know it we’re at the last stop, getting off into an unknown environment. I would never deny the importance of this journey, however I think that if we rely on the train to take us where we want to be, without getting off and exploring any of the stops, we may end up at the wrong destination. Indeed this journey is vital, but maybe we should consider different modes of transport to take us on this trip?
I for one think our children should not be on the train because no good can come of it, consider alternatives they are out there.
https://steemit.com/education/@marymg2014/zero-tolerance-policies-in-schools-a-terrible-idea-that-hurts-children
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The school is a socializing experience : as if we need to teach kids how to socialize for over 10 years. Socializing happens for people instinctively as we are the most social creatures. To use socializing experience as the excuse for not teaching our children how to think, but only what to think, there's no reason to think that the impressionable kids won't end up relying on second hand conclusion's and borrowed myths that cannot be questioned.
In a setting where socializing is first, and truth, while critical thinking/the tool of learning, are about last, in such a setting the kids are not doing much more than swallowing state propaganda, indoctrinating another obedient and/or disillusioned generation ready to be exploited by a consumer culture backed by illusionary paper.
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Totally agree, I got my best friends from school, but that's about it. Totally isolated from society for a good ten years.
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Upvoted followed and resteemed
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I would encourage you to read the
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
by John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991
http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html
I am pretty certain you will like it.
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Thank you! I did recently order a book from Gatto, thanks for the recommendation.
If you haven't already; I really enjoyed Deschooling Society, by Ivan Illich.
It was the first that properly opened my eyes to just how redundant the school system is (besides my own experience of course)
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Thank you I will check it out for sure.
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I think you will appreciate both of these posts.
https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@camille1234/a-better-introduction-because-knowledge-is-power
https://steemit.com/education/@camille1234/it-is-not-necessary-to-burn-the-books-all-we-have-to-do-is-to-leave-them-unread-for-a-few-generations
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Open source! https://archive.org/details/DeschoolingSociety
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