Subject: Re: [MD] Education... Again
I'm not sure if personal arguments are helpful in this case.
Pirsig writes in *Lila *about attempts by rational organizations to create
quality, Soviet architecture, for example: they just don't get it.
Likewise, in my 10 years as a teacher, it seems to me that government
schools don't get quality, or even try to achieve it.
In fact, compulsory education may be an oxymoron. It seems that we learn
most when our actions are quality, but I wonder if you can force someone
to
do quality work.
Interesting that the citation from Browne came up here. The author of
Underground
History of Education
<http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm>who
I cited before, Gatto, is also a libertarian.
Otto Zequeira
Have you seen the drawings for the palace of the soviets? That would have
been nice.
And as for this notion that schools can't produce good educations just
because they are government funded; that's just ridiculous. The mere fact
that the schools and universities here (and in Finland as Arlo pointed out)
isn't aimed at making money doesn't make them less of quality schools.
I'm getting pretty deep into education politics at the moment, what with my
work in the student union and elsewhere, and from where I'm standing the
comments about schools and the education system being unable to produce
quality because they are publicly funded is just. meaningless.
It just lacks truth and logic.
What is true and logical is that when it comes to higher education, areas
such as philosophy and the humanities would disappear if the schools where
simply interested in what was a market-efficient education.
//Chris
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