On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:35:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:31, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > On Friday 14 November 2003 3:48 pm, David Palmer. wrote: > [snip very good points] > > > > > The modern 'educational' process is there to teach people how to read > > > just well enough so that they no longer need to think. > > > Regards, > > > > The modern educational process should teach people not to think what have been > > thought by others before, but to concentrate on new problems. > > It's what some call progress. > > People still should think about "what have been thought by others > before", because what has been thought before might be wrong. Of course, until we start teaching people how to _think_, all debate about what to teach them to think _about_ is moot. The current culture (including shitty schools, the media, etc) seems to be pretty effectively designed to teach "the people" _not_ to think. -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | Never eat more than you can lift. < > Please do not | - Miss Piggy < > reply off-list. | < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
Attachment:
pgp8QGH2uYwXr.pgp
Description: PGP signature