My father-in-law put the imagery of Pink Floyd's The Wall into my head today. He spontaneously monologued a bit about public schools; it was good. He basically said:
"People say public schools are bad, but that isn't true. They're very good at what they were designed for -- to create people who could work in factories. They teach you to arrive at a bell, go to lunch at a bell and leave at a bell. You learn to sit at a desk and do the same work everyone else is. These things don't really have anything to do with education.People don't realize that these things aren't inborn. In the old days, people regulated their lives by the schedules of agriculture. It took public schools to teach people to show up to the factory on time."
You can see where TulipGirl gets her brains from. What he said made a lot of sense to me. Our public schools aren't bad -- just obsolete.
Posted by Discoshaman at novembre 25, 2005 01:40 AM | TrackBack
Boy is that the truth. I have been working with African refugees and who attend public schools. One of their teachers actually told me that their only job is to make sure they can get a diploma, they can learn to read later when they find a job. My question is, "what kind of job are they going to get if they can't read? Even garbage men have to be able to read the handle on the truck that says pull here to dump." I went to a public school and turned out ok, but now its more like a cattle gate, just move them on through and when they get out into the pasture its someone else's problem.
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