Dear Christopher, Gatto argues that government-run education serves its own interests more than those of individuals, and recommends decentralizing decision-making and funding to the school-site level. The need for this is perhaps more evident in primary and secondary schools than in your college.
He also argues that interest in philosophy and the humanities was greater when you did not force young people to study them and instead allowed them to find their own way. These things reflect my experience as a teacher, where I have found freedom and choice helped students achieve quality and thus learn more. Otto Zequeira http://mdcpsprofessionals.wikispaces.com On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Christoffer Ivarsson < [email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
