On the one hand, “think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of them are dumber than that.”
On the other hand, an educational system that was designed scientifically with data-driven best practices and not just what a bunch of fundamentalists in Texas think we should teach would also improve things greatly. As would, of course, strengthening the DoE and allocating DoD’s budget to education and infrastructure.
DoE isn’t gonna teach independent thought, the right to question everything including authority. Capitalist education will always lead to compliance, and doing your part to maintain capitalist hegemony
My perspective isn’t from the american view where home schooling is not frowned upon, but from scandinavian and french school systems. They both have their ups and downs but no one “plead allegiance” or whatever in normal schools here (they have sort of religious classes in religious schools here in france so they might pledge allegiance to jesus or something).
In France they actually require critical thinking(with sources and argumentation, they even have rhetoric “competitions”) and working together.
On a side note, it would be so nice if people could tell which viewpoint they have, like [us] or [fr] etc. Discussions would be more interesting IMO.
On the one hand, “think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of them are dumber than that.”
On the other hand, an educational system that was designed scientifically with data-driven best practices and not just what a bunch of fundamentalists in Texas think we should teach would also improve things greatly. As would, of course, strengthening the DoE and allocating DoD’s budget to education and infrastructure.
DoE isn’t gonna teach independent thought, the right to question everything including authority. Capitalist education will always lead to compliance, and doing your part to maintain capitalist hegemony
I mean obviously I want my anarchist alternative but I dont see it anywhere, do you?
My perspective isn’t from the american view where home schooling is not frowned upon, but from scandinavian and french school systems. They both have their ups and downs but no one “plead allegiance” or whatever in normal schools here (they have sort of religious classes in religious schools here in france so they might pledge allegiance to jesus or something).
In France they actually require critical thinking(with sources and argumentation, they even have rhetoric “competitions”) and working together.
On a side note, it would be so nice if people could tell which viewpoint they have, like [us] or [fr] etc. Discussions would be more interesting IMO.