So I came across this video featuring ken robinson:
If you have not studied this stuff, this is a good overview of the genesis of some common educational paradigms, so I thought it was worth sharing as a good jumping off point for discussion.
Some of the more difficult and unpleasant aspects of public education were not mentioned and perhaps need to be . . . e.g.,
the economic incentive on the part of vendors to endlessly expand it as a fix,
the inequities between rich and poor school systems,
using classrooms and textbooks as tools of social engineering at the expense of individual development,
expecting people who have embraced the existing paradigm to be the ones to deliver a new one,
seeing the purely social functions of a school (as universal daycare, e.g.),
and recognizing that the current paradigm is the ostensible means by which one gets to the top of the socio-economic ladder by getting into "better colleges."
. . . also the advantages and incentives to those who are currently in power (or employed by it) to keep the current system as it is.
I guess I just felt like saying, "this is pretty good but here is what isn't mentioned here . . . "
(c) Justin Locke
