Chris, At times you are funny.
When I suggested that "Teachers should teach only those who want to learn - or whose parents want them to learn." You replied" 'What about the others? This "screw the rest" attitude is so typical of the FT ideology. It only makes things worse.' The "others" are those who don't want to learn and cause trouble when they are forced to enter classes. Of course your collectivist ideology loves the idea of threatening and forcing people to do what they don't want to do - but have you thought of the damage they do to the education of other students? About a quarter of teacher classroom time is spent in discipline in many US schools. Would it not be better to stop coercing attendance by the 'recalcitrants' as you want to do and rather let the teachers teach those who want to learn? What a wonderful non sequitur is your last paragraph. Harry ******************************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 Tel: 818 352-4141 -- Fax: 818 353-2242 http://haledward.home.comcast.net ******************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Futurework] The Politics of Foodbanks (or lack thereof) Harry Pollard wrote: > When I read it, I agreed with Chris' remarks. Except of course > his aside on protectionism. The problem is that the system I described wouldn't work under "Free" Market conditions. > Our only hope in the US in many places is to make education > voluntary. Teachers should teach only those who want to learn - > or whose parents want them to learn. What about the others? This "screw the rest" attitude is so typical of the FT ideology. It only makes things worse. Btw, learning disabilities are increasing. I.e there are children who may want to learn (and whose parents want them to learn) but who are unable to learn (effectively). This is mainly due to effects of corporate policies (junk-food malnutrition, dental mercury, drugs, cell-phone radiation etc.), so blaming "state schools" in general and praising privatization/corporatization is really making the fox guard the henhouse. Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.557 / Virus Database: 349 - Release Date: 12/30/2003 _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
