[Nectar] The Failure of Modern Public Education

03-02-2007, 05:40 PM

> ...The truth is that schools don't
> really teach anything except how to obey orders."
>
> "Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas,
> formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and
> controlled."

These generalizations appear to be true to-day, but when I went to school --
in the fifties -- though I did have these impressions sometimes, overall I
felt that education was necessary and that school was giving it. I enjoyed
my maths, physics and chemistry. (I was highly suspicious of the history
though.)

Rd