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.
>
Well, you can prove that by, first, adopting my system for a
generation (maybe 2) and seeing if it works better or not. Anything
else is just hot air. 'Sport' doesn't matter as much as getting along
with one another. And, if you think it does, then, I'm afraid, we'll
have to agree to disagree. Nothing lost in that. But nothing
gained.
> 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.
>
But how many bright, poor, homeless people go there? Straw man,
I'm afraid. All of us are equally individual. I don't ascribe to
'animal farm' ideals. Nor should you. Nor would I have thought you
would.
> We don't live in the kind of utopia you're philosophy requires, sadly;
> Darwinism still reigns.
>
Darwin, I would think, was intelligent enough to realise the value
of cooperation and coordination. If your liver started competing with
your pancreas, how long do you think you'd last? Our own bodies give
us the example of the obvious success of organisation, coordination
and cooperation and Darwin would agree with that. What reigns isn't
Darwinism, what reigns is caveman mentality--the bigger club/weapon
the better 'fit'. Bollocks. That reduces us to the least common
denominator rather than our highest ideals. We MUST get out of that
caveman thinking or we WILL be reduced back to that level.
> Ian
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