'Your' not 'you're' Pollard! What a fucking celebration of fucking mediocrity! I don't much go for the wimp-wristed non-competition, suspecting a fresh competition of wimpery. One of Foucault's colleagues once gave out university certificates on a bus, and now we're all doing it. Come to think of it, schooling is a kind of celebration of mediocre sex and travel of the brain leaving substantial numbers pregnant in order to escape and the rest in need of arithmetic and spelling lessons! We don't need Utopia (itself implying a place that can never exist), but a sense of community, regulation and fairness that structures freedom. The demise of the red-penned English teacher of my first line might not be a bad start ... Darwinism also implies some kind of nurturing away from 'red in tooth and claw'. Strangely I think Ian and Pat are both sort of right here.
On 28 Oct, 14:01, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/10/28 Pat <[email protected]> > > > > > Of course we have schools all wrong. We encourage children to > > compete against one another--to score better on tests than their > > peers, to excel at sports over their their peers and teach them that > > the only way THEY will do well is if they can continue to beat > > everyone else 'out there' in the real world. > > Totally wrong, Pat. This is exactly what we don't do any more in schools. My > nephew's recent sports day was pathetic. No prizes for the winners (because > "everyone was a winner")! What a fucking celebration of mediocrity. > > Unsurprisingly, the most popular schools -- and the ones with the highest > level of achievement -- are the ones that are independent, fee paying, and > encourage competition in all areas. > > We don't live in the kind of utopia you're philosophy requires, sadly; > Darwinism still reigns. > > Ian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
