12-12-2004, 08:56 PM
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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
the theory of "public education" is in the Communist Manifesto.
"10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. "
you do realize the only reason public school exists is so your kids arent slaving in factories. instead they are being born and bred and taught to slave in cubicles.
those who want free education, do not understand the system behind it.
am i the only one who reads around here?
communist manifesto in full: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 1848
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/cl...manifesto.html
i also suggest reading: Deschooling Society
which focuses on this subject at length
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-illic.htm
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby "schooled" to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is "schooled" to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.
Ivan Illich Deschooling Society (1973: 9)
RIP these great minds.
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My kids will probably go to private schools, not church ones though. How does that make me a bad person? Not related to this thread, just asking. |
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