[ExI] I don't understand students: help !

[Antonio Marcos]

Maybe current schools could gradually move in that direction. Drastic changes are often less effective and, lets say, harder to digest for the whole system.

Kindly,
Mark.


--- Em sex, 19/12/08, Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> escreveu:

> De: Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com>
> Assunto: Re: [ExI] I don't understand students: help !
> Para: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Data: Sexta-feira, 19 de Dezembro de 2008, 1:46
> 2008/12/19 Kevin H <kevin.l.holmes at gmail.com>:
> > I'm not really sure what you guys are talking
> about.  Ending public/free
> > education just means you're going to have more
> uneducated people out there,
> > how is this a good thing?  I'm actually in favor
> of the direction we're on
> > with standardized testing and using this as the
> primary criteria for
> > evaluation teachers.  We just have to get out of the
> era of social
> > promotion, parents and teacher unions having the
> majority of the power, and
> > you don't have to kill public education to do
> this.
> >
> > Kevin
> 
> I think Dagon wasn't advocated ending educating people.
> Rather, I read
> him as saying that the institution of school needs to be
> thrown out,
> replaced with automated self-directed learning that kids
> could do from
> home, at their own pace, etc etc. So the public could
> feasibly become
> more educated than ever, just we wouldn't be using
> internment camps to
> achieve it.
> 
> -- 
> Emlyn
> 
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