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Category: EducationCalifornia’s plunge into anarchy continues, truth first casualty“The state trails national averages in almost every objective category, the Rand Corp. report says.” Rand Corp. report evaluating California public schools released today. Posted by leslie on Tuesday, January 4, 2005 at 05:26 PM in Education
Bored educatorsThis is the best explanation that I have yet heard for the criminal way literacy is mostly taught —or not taught— in the schools these days My old guitar teacher has a saying: “You can educate yourself into boredom.”... What he means is that you can study the classical guitar repertoire so thoroughly and for so many years that you simply become bored with it…. The same phenomenon may explain why so many education professors (and hence public school teachers) gravitate towards trendy educational methods that deny children a good foundation in reading. Not necessarily because of ill-will, stupidity, or ignorance. Boredom is the thing to look for. Posted by jonjayray on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at 07:00 PM in Education
Quote of the dayIf our universities - and, indeed, schools - are to recover we will need a new Thatcher, but all three parties offer us only Lenins. Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham
Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, December 2, 2004 at 07:16 PM in Education
Learning difficultiesOn a day when Prince Charles spoke for us all and Charles Clarke spoke for the rest, I was pleased to find that John Ray had got there ahead of them. He reported this article by English lecturer Joanna Williams. She has come to the realisation that this government’s great drive for social inclusion is counter-educational. Inclusion is, of course, code for equality. But it’s code that we, as nice, decent, high-minded people are not meant to quibble with. After all, who would protest at something so soft-focus, so clearly well-intentioned and humane as inclusion, whereas an awful lot of us will bitterly contest the harder, politically divisive issue of “equality” – be it of opportunity or outcome. No, inclusion is a useful word, a real asset for the left. We need to unpick the meaning of it ruthlessly because the meaning of it is that classic dictatorship of the proletariat: the lowest common denominator. Posted by Guessedworker on Thursday, November 18, 2004 at 08:27 PM in Education
Faith schools in the modern British stateAmericans who don’t realize how traditional complexities often linger in England in spite of the left/liberal tendency of British politics are surprised by the persistence of faith schools there. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, though, that the secular and multicultural commitments of the British state have now made faith schools an issue, or that the issue has its practical complexities that reflect something more general than peculiar English conditions. The practical problem is that secular multicultural education is always bad, at least on any large scale, because schools of that kind can’t have educational goals that are more sustaining than pliability on the one hand and the effective pursuit of self-interest on the other. If the moral world consists solely of the conflicting purposes of various people, then you either teach children to do what they’re told or you teach them to get what they want. The results of such an outlook when applied to education are fundamental aimlessness, aggression, manipulation, boredom, stupidity, and general bad conduct. Everybody hates everybody, and nobody learns anything. Posted by Guest Blogger on Monday, November 1, 2004 at 11:13 AM in Education, Marxism & Culture War
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