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Here is a fascinating article about public education from New York State Teacher of the Year (1991) and prolific author, John Taylor Gatto. In my opinion, this should be required reading for every teacher and, especially every administrator. For that matter, it is even more important that this should be read by every parent and student, as well.
The reason for the push for earlier and earlier education is really
because school is really de-facto public paid child care. In many cases
nowadays, families are used to living on two incomes to help support
their consumer-driven, “buying useless crap” lifestyle, but they still
want kids. So what they do, is have them anyway, even though neither
parent actually has any time to do any real parenting, and then
the kid is pushed off to day-care. The day-care people end up becoming
the real parents. If you can put the kid in school earlier, then you
potentially have less day-care to worry about . . . plus you have
the possible fantasy you can live out that the kid is going to have
an advantage over another one that didn’t go to school earlier.
In that case, it’s not the public school that is the problem, per se.But if we want to focus on the school system itself, the real problem
is the mistaken belief that is embedded into the culture that “you have to go to college to get a good job”. This is a bunch of crap. For one, not every student
SHOULD go to college. For two, we now have an entire crop of college
graduates with student loan debt that STILL can’t get jobs. The public
school system should be restructured to allow for more entrepreneurship
(the real source of wealth and innovation in America) and also more
readily track students into trades professions where
non-book-types can get going with a job immediately. This current
model of sending 90%+ students into college after high school
is a dysfunctional model.S
whats the point of the education system?
higher evolution?
space migration?
planetary sustenance?yeah right
the schools in North America were, in part, I think, founded to prevent a new religious state, and for that Bravo..
as for the progression of the sciences, they may seem horrid but they have kept incredibly rigourous standards
only to be exploited in political impotence by the unholy dollar
just look at the United States of Garbage and Pollution
realistically, it has become a 90% futile pecking hierarchy of gorilla chimps oblivious to the $ they serve…
heres new technology for your war machines uncle banky pants
there are only a few brief industries, an even briefer history,
and a few powers that be, every one else is pawn prole
because they have no true objecttive,
and that gets back to religion
if your spiritual purpose is a fraud, or not even their to begin with
then what won’t be?
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