--- Laura Waterman Wittstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > John M O'Neal wrote:
> >
> >> Those of us who are in touch realize that we live
> in a global
> >> economy. Those of us who are in touch realize
> that, in Minneapolis,
> >> we have, at least, significant communities of
> Lebanese, Mexican,
> >> Southwest Asian, Somali, and Vietnamese
> immigrants as well as
> >> established African-American, European, and
> Native American
> >> communities.
>
> On Sunday, July 11, 2004, at 07:03 PM, Michael
> Atherton wrote:
> >
> > So what does this imply? We had an international
> city in 1910,
> > maybe just not quite as diverse.
>
>
> Just a couple of reminders about 1910:
>
> Women did not have the right to vote.
> Racial segregation was in place.
> Ethnic segregation (Jews, other Eastern and Southern
> Europeans) was in
> place.
> American Indians were not citizens and thus could
> not vote.
> Immigration laws prevented Africans, Asians,
> (including South Asia and
> the Middle East), Mexicans, Central and South
> Americans from
> immigrating whereas Western Europeans were welcome.
> 19th Century Minnesota handbills printed to recruit
> immigrants were in
> German.
>
> (Wir Stammten aus Deutschland nach Hausen Minnesota
> "We originated out
> of Germany and have come home to Minnesota")
>
> "Minnesota Territory, for example, established
> Eugene Burnand as the
> territory's first Commissioner of Emigration in
> 1856. Burnand, from an
> office in New York, advertised Minnesota through
> pamphlets, immigrant
> newspapers, and persuasive speeches made to
> newly-arrived immigrants at
> the ship docks. Through his work, Burnand brought
> many new immigrants
> to the territory, particularly individuals of German
> extraction."
>
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mnstatehistory/german_migration.html
>
> ----------------------
>
> "Not quite as diverse" is an understatement.
> Minnesota fixed it to be
> that way. It is safe to say that Minnesota has
> never had the diversity
> challenge it is now experiencing and the Minneapolis
> public schools are
> at a most critical period of change.
>
> 19th Century education has got to give way. It will
> give way. It has
> given way to some degree. The number one lesson in
> all of this is that
> public education cannot be done on the cheap. When
> all we had to do was
> turn out kids to factory or farm work, big
> classrooms, less than a full
> year of school, no technology, and minimally
> prepared teachers were
> okay. (well, probably not okay, but that is what we
> did).
>
> We now have to turn kids to information work,
> knowledge work, and
> service work. How does having crowded classrooms,
> nine months of
> school, and teacher front, kids in rows make that
> happen? It doesn't.
> Major system reform is needed and that costs money.
>
> We at the top of the global society in order to
> maintain our position
> have to educate our young (all of them) to assume
> the summit. That
> includes learning sharing, kindness, generosity,
> tolerance, and
> helpfulness. Get the picture?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Laura Wittstock
> Southeast
> Well, Norwegians,Swedes,Germans,Irish
Mexicans,English
could all be taught the same way because they were
trained for doltish employment,with no need for
compassion, tolerance etc.. The education received
back then gave us the technologically advanced nation
we have now. The immigrants back then had different
languages and customs but found a way to build America
and this city. Perhaps less focus on sharing and
kindness and different cultures and more on plain
math,reading, etc. is the answer. Let the moral values
of each culture be taught at home and if the schools
must teach subjects other than hard learning let it be
that now we are all Americans. Dain Lyngstad
edina/phillips
>
>
>
>
>
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