[Khaled] Yes the education system needs reforming, but I don't want to see little "Madrasas" all over the country.
[Arlo] The trouble in "public education" is not in the "public". It is rooted in the value of "why educate?" What are our goals, purposes, strategies? What's important? What isn't? Do we cut arts programs in favor of sports? In favor of business courses? Is "literacy" important? "Cultural literacy"? Why? For what ends? What is the role of factual knowledge versus critical thinking? How do we assess? What do we assess? Are our assessments really giving us skills or test-taking ability? Why should students "want" to learn? How do we foster that "want"? These are the questions that point to where education has faltered. It is not because it is "public", but because of the answers we have given to the above questions. Maybe its time to rethink the Bafuesserkirche thread and get back to Dewey and Pirsig on that topic. 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/
