And Another Place That Collectivism Doesn't Work

[PoliticalChic]

Schools.

Isn't it time we move out of the 19th century...the Progressive Era....for the education industry?

Here we are with the entire education industry wholly owned and operated by Liberalism, incorporated....and the result is a scandal.


Actual accomplishment, real education has been moved down below indoctrination, multiculturalism, liberalism, and lock-step conformity.


1. "The last 100 years have seen drastic technological innovations — from the way we communicate to the way we travel to the way we consume entertainment. One thing that hasn’t changed is the way we do school. Teacher, chalkboard, lesson, test, move up a grade, repeat.

2. ... we have no idea what kind of innovations could improve educationuntil we allow radical competition. After all, if government ran the entertainment industry, we might still be watching black and white movies and listening to phonograph records.

3. [Some] features of our existing education system are wrongly treated as inevitable:

a. Students are segregated by age. This means that all students have the same amount of time to learn a certain amount of stuff innth grade before we test them to see if they can move to graden+ 1.

b. We divide our school curricula into discrete subjects: math, science, language, history, arts, physical education, and so on. Students learn the math required to do science in math class and read about history in history class but read literature in English class.

c. The school day starts in the early morning and runs until mid-afternoon, and the school year is a fairly big chunk of 175 to 180 days (with a few small breaks) followed by a two- to three-month summer break.

4. .... alternatives quickly come to mind. One could imagine, for instance, a school that didn’t teach math, science, and history as separate disciplines but found creative ways to teach them in combination — or schools that aren’t automatically structured by age.

5. School choiceallows schools to experiment with different curricula and teaching approaches, but it also allows them to experiment by modifying some of those features that we often take for granted ....." Why Schools Don’t Learn | Kevin Currie-Knight

 

[JakeStarkey]

Define your terms.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Schools.

Isn't it time we move out of the 19th century...the Progressive Era....for the education industry?

Here we are with the entire education industry wholly owned and operated by Liberalism, incorporated....and the result is a scandal.


Actual accomplishment, real education has been moved down below indoctrination, multiculturalism, liberalism, and lock-step conformity.


1. "The last 100 years have seen drastic technological innovations — from the way we communicate to the way we travel to the way we consume entertainment. One thing that hasn’t changed is the way we do school. Teacher, chalkboard, lesson, test, move up a grade, repeat.

2. ... we have no idea what kind of innovations could improve educationuntil we allow radical competition. After all, if government ran the entertainment industry, we might still be watching black and white movies and listening to phonograph records.

3. [Some] features of our existing education system are wrongly treated as inevitable:

a. Students are segregated by age. This means that all students have the same amount of time to learn a certain amount of stuff innth grade before we test them to see if they can move to graden+ 1.

b. We divide our school curricula into discrete subjects: math, science, language, history, arts, physical education, and so on. Students learn the math required to do science in math class and read about history in history class but read literature in English class.

c. The school day starts in the early morning and runs until mid-afternoon, and the school year is a fairly big chunk of 175 to 180 days (with a few small breaks) followed by a two- to three-month summer break.

4. .... alternatives quickly come to mind. One could imagine, for instance, a school that didn’t teach math, science, and history as separate disciplines but found creative ways to teach them in combination — or schools that aren’t automatically structured by age.

5. School choiceallows schools to experiment with different curricula and teaching approaches, but it also allows them to experiment by modifying some of those features that we often take for granted ....." Why Schools Don’t Learn | Kevin Currie-Knight

Preaching to the choir fallacy, no one of significance or merit advocates for "collectivism."

 

[PoliticalChic]

Schools.

Isn't it time we move out of the 19th century...the Progressive Era....for the education industry?

Here we are with the entire education industry wholly owned and operated by Liberalism, incorporated....and the result is a scandal.


Actual accomplishment, real education has been moved down below indoctrination, multiculturalism, liberalism, and lock-step conformity.


1. "The last 100 years have seen drastic technological innovations — from the way we communicate to the way we travel to the way we consume entertainment. One thing that hasn’t changed is the way we do school. Teacher, chalkboard, lesson, test, move up a grade, repeat.

2. ... we have no idea what kind of innovations could improve educationuntil we allow radical competition. After all, if government ran the entertainment industry, we might still be watching black and white movies and listening to phonograph records.

3. [Some] features of our existing education system are wrongly treated as inevitable:

a. Students are segregated by age. This means that all students have the same amount of time to learn a certain amount of stuff innth grade before we test them to see if they can move to graden+ 1.

b. We divide our school curricula into discrete subjects: math, science, language, history, arts, physical education, and so on. Students learn the math required to do science in math class and read about history in history class but read literature in English class.

c. The school day starts in the early morning and runs until mid-afternoon, and the school year is a fairly big chunk of 175 to 180 days (with a few small breaks) followed by a two- to three-month summer break.

4. .... alternatives quickly come to mind. One could imagine, for instance, a school that didn’t teach math, science, and history as separate disciplines but found creative ways to teach them in combination — or schools that aren’t automatically structured by age.

5. School choiceallows schools to experiment with different curricula and teaching approaches, but it also allows them to experiment by modifying some of those features that we often take for granted ....." Why Schools Don’t Learn | Kevin Currie-Knight

Preaching to the choir fallacy, no one of significance or merit advocates for "collectivism."

You don't recognize that the government schools are the product of collectivism?

Well....clearly you are both a victim of collectivism, and the result.

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's almost amusing- in a pathetic sort of way- that folks like Bill's wife demand to be known as 'Progressives,' yet endorse the atavistic institution that government schools have become under their tutelage.
Some 'progress,' huh?


6. "Behavioral psychologists have discovered in people a marked (often unconscious and uncritical) acceptance of the way things are. When we experience the world a certain way, we often become attached to that way .... Why Schools Don’t Learn | Kevin Currie-Knight


This works to the advantage of the collectivists who, then, need not find a way to justify the failures evident in the current system.


Who knows.....with a variety of choices, schools might not see as their mission, turning out good little Liberals.....and return to education.




a. "Why do Democrats oppose ed choice voucher system?
It's confusing to me that the liberal agenda seems to be all about helping the poor, yet most candidates I've read up on oppose the very system that allows these children a better education and thus better opportunities in life."
Why do Democrats oppose ed choice voucher system? • /r/Ask_Politics


You know why.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. "One could object, of course, that new alternative schools — with their different schedules of operation or different approaches to curricula — will get things wrong, to the detriment of students. Yes, some schools will try what ultimately fails. But unlike big centralized bureaucracies, businesses learn quickly from their failures and adapt — or they go broke. Contrast that process to the time it takes for government to abandon a program everyone knows isn’t working.


8. Unless you think the current school system is doing fine, the only way forward is through innovation, and innovation requires the sort of experimentation that happens naturally in the free market."
Why Schools Don’t Learn | Kevin Currie-Knight



Imagine.....students might actually come away understanding that the free market is a good thing, and was the foundation upon which this nation was built.