Friday, February 22, 2008
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Posted 02/22/2008 4:00 PM CDT • Print Vers.
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Heard this on the radio yesterday (In Council Bluffs iowa)
“if you think the teacher who can’t teach your child how to add, subtract, divide or multiply has any business telling them how to REPRODUCE, you are OBVIOUSLY a liberal.”
og | 2/22/2008 05:08 PM CDT -
“As for employers, I am not certain I understand what they want”
LOL. Pretty much sums it up right there.
Get a job for once in your life and find out. Asshat.
Thebastidge | 2/23/2008 02:50 AM CDT -
Frank Furedi, the sociology professor at the University of Kent who provided the “No” response, did an excellent job of refuting Anthony Seldon’s idiotic ideas. I rarely am impressed by what sociologists say, but Furedi understands life and education. If only we could replace all the Seldons with Furedis.
Dr. T | 2/23/2008 05:24 PM CDT -
I don’t think Seldon is advocating overriding or undermining the family. I think he is identifying the areas of human progression ("linguistic and logical, social and personal, spiritual and moral, creative and physical") and saying: to lead full purposeful lives, we should understand that these all these areas are equally important. He doesn’t advocate teaching one aspect over the other (or in spite of the other).
This sounds very much like the teaching of the whole child. Something many homeschoolers (and parents) have already been doing. I don’t think he means to say we should force it on a government public school scale – he is a private school headmaster after all (which is voluntary).
I do believe wellness (the whole eight aspects of learning) CAN be taught successfully. Heck, parents have been teaching it to their kids for years. Kim and The Mrs seem to have done it with their own children.
Wellness just cannot be taught on a large scale in our school system environment today. Like you said, they can barely manage “linguistic and logical” let alone the other six areas.
Sad thing is, not all parents are like Kim and The Mrs. And it’s those other children that lose – and thus, the rest of us.
ns | 2/25/2008 04:33 PM CDT -
NS-
This is an article from the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school
For some odd historical reasons, the terms Public/Private School are used in the opposite sense in Amercian and the UK.
Thus a Public School Boy is a student at a for-profit educational facility that is not run (entirely) on taxes, and the “public” part refers to not being restricted based on race or nationality.
Thebastidge | 2/26/2008 06:04 AM CDT
