Every one want a better education system, that's an easy position. Bashing the existing one is easy, bringing scaling solution is another challange. Personally I have worked both in school and factory (when a teenager), I never thought the two were related nor common: in a factory it is noisy, it is stinking, boss are not particularly friendly, they don't want what is good for you but only the job done. All the opposite a student find in school as today...
It is easy to guess Toffler did not have this experience...
Sorry I don't buy the arguments.
Psychologically, comparing school and factory is an attempts to disregard subliminally public education (the one who bring education to the mass, and me).
Hilaire
Le 27/08/2010 12:19, Bert Freudenberg a écrit :
Toffler is not arguing against public education per se. He's saying that schools resembling factories are inadequate for today's society. We need better forms of education than sitting still in a classroom, having a different topic forced onto you every hour - which still is reality for way too many kids.
- Bert -
On 27.08.2010, at 08:03, Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
This just looks unsane to me!
Seriously public education is a great achievement for the society and human right. About discipline, you all know we are teaching auto-discipline to the kids not just discipline, especially with teenager.
Does this person try to promote homeschooling or the private education sector?
Hilaire
Le 14/08/2010 18:21, Carlos Rabassa a écrit :
I have just watched a most interesting video a friend pointed out to me.
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