Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU WeblogNews, clips, comments on knowledge, knowledge-making, education, weblogging, philosophy, systems and ecology.Forced Schooling, NO, Small Neighborhood Schools, YES. (JT Gatto again)- January 23, 2006 Summary: I have written admiringly of John Taylor Gatto before. I am provoked to do so again by Mike Kilen's moving summary and critique of mandatory schooling (aka the factory model of education). There are large dangers to 'factorified' education; the worst, IMHO, is each student's loss of relationship to her or his potential. What's left The sole decision: as to how much one commits to, or resists, becoming an "appropriately trained" worker participant in a one-size-fits-all vision of...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698/2006/01/22.html#a330 |