Carrol-
I won't react to your hostile reply: <<This is a dippy notion fit only for
the comics>>
other than to refer you to the following. If you simply had a bad day, you
may be interested in another viewpoint. If this is your characteristic
mindset, then it is for the benefit of those who are not like you...
Joan
http://www.sepschool.org/
The Cement Canoe
Marshall Fritz
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In America, local governments started absorbing independent schools in the
1830s. "State schooling" became dominant within three decades. Government-run
schooling is like a cement canoe full of microscopic holes. It worked for a
bit, but as it began filling with water, energy was diverted from paddling to
bailing. Each person sees him/herself bailing hard and wonders what fool
stuck his foot through the bottom. Since nobody admits it, somebody must be
lying!
Our cement canoe is full of parents, teachers, children, principals, school
board members, legislators, and educators. Accusations fly as they all seek
the culprit (or class of culprits) responsible for sabotaging the canoe. Name
calling and finger pointing divert people from the weaknesses of the flawed
cement canoe: an educational system based on socialism, (the government
ownership and operation of the means of production.)
It's not the people in the canoe causing the problem, it's the canoe itself.
Attempts to blame educators for educational system failures prevent them from
looking at the merits of alternative ideas. They just return the ad hominem
attacks. Most educators are good people trying to do good work. But they're
caught in a system that doesn't work, the cement canoe of socialism.
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