Why Schools Don’t Educate - The Natural Child Project
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Independent School Collaboration
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Saved by 16 people (2 private), first by anonymouse user on 2006-07-04
- Brands on 2008-06-01 - Tags no_tag
- Scottmerrick on 2008-05-05 - Tags no_tag
- Sarahhanawald on 2008-05-03 - Tags education , teaching , independent
- Cburell on 2007-07-07 - Tags education , gatto , schoolreform
- Eliazar on 2006-12-20 - Tags education , imported:del.icio.us , linkstream , schools
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The world's narcotic economy is based
upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many
powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an
important sales outlet.
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a
disaster of ignorance
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Schools were designed by Horace Mann and Barnard Sears and Harper of
the University of Chicago and Thorndyke of Columbia Teachers College and
some other men to be instruments of the scientific management of a mass
population. Schools are intended to produce through the application of
formulae, formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and
controlled.
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Senator Ted Kennedy's office
released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory
education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never
again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990
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in the United States almost nobody who reads,
writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,
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Public Comment
on 2006-07-04 by noondesertsky
on 2006-08-02 by voxefx