[ExI] re-post: covid revolutionized education

[William Flynn Wallace]

but a
civilisation doesn't want their children to become revolutionaries and
upset the current power structures.  BillK

*Yep  - and that's why we sanitize our history books to show that we are
the good guys.  Which is difficult given the stupid wars we started in the
20th century, which IS indoctrination and propaganda.   bill*

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 8:58 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 14:18, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Theme of Spike's post about online education: teachers will become
> dinosaurs.  Teachers are not necessary for learning.
> >
> > I think there are quite a few assumptions in those words above. I'll
> probably need help in airing them out.  More coffee, please?
> >
> > bill w
> >
>
>
> Only if you consider 'learning' to be something abstract.  For all
> civilisations, teachers are needed to create productive (compliant?)
> members of that civ. Call it indoctrination, if you like, but a
> civilisation doesn't want their children to become revolutionaries and
> upset the current power structures.
>
>
> BillK
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