" Strangely I think Ian and Pat are both sort of right here." I am by now used to your confused, unsubstantial non - ideas and poor, unconvincing ambivalence, Neil ! And I doubt if it is just old age ...
On Oct 28, 8:26 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > '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- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
