[MD] Education... Again

[Christoffer Ivarsson]

> Subject: Re: [MD] Education... Again

> I'm not sure if personal arguments are helpful in this case.
>
> Pirsig writes in *Lila *about attempts by rational organizations to create
> quality, Soviet architecture, for example: they just don't get it.
>
> Likewise, in my 10 years as a teacher, it seems to me that government
> schools don't get quality, or even try to achieve it.
>
> In fact, compulsory education may be an oxymoron.  It seems that we learn
> most when our actions are quality, but I wonder if you can force someone 
> to
> do quality work.
>
> Interesting that the citation from Browne came up here.  The author of
> Underground
> History of Education 
> <http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm>who
> I cited before, Gatto, is also a libertarian.
>
> Otto Zequeira

Have you seen the drawings for the palace of the soviets? That would have 
been nice.

And as for this notion that schools can't produce good educations just 
because they are government funded; that's just ridiculous. The mere fact 
that the schools and universities here (and in Finland as Arlo pointed out) 
isn't aimed at making money doesn't make them less of quality schools.

I'm getting pretty deep into education politics at the moment, what with my 
work in the student union and elsewhere, and from where I'm standing the 
comments about schools and the education system being unable to produce 
quality because they are publicly funded is just. meaningless.

It just lacks truth and logic.

What is true and logical is that when it comes to higher education, areas 
such as philosophy and the humanities would disappear if the schools where 
simply interested in what was a market-efficient education.


//Chris