by Jay Roberts 8 years ago
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A school were kids don’t have to learn how to read?
English not the first language taught?
Intelligent design only Biology classes?
Tracking based upon genetic predispositions?
Flat-earth curricula?
“Ideas are more powerful than guns, we took away their guns, why should we let them have their ideas?” J. Stalin.
Being aware of your assumptions allows you to remember the power of “the speech that moves the stone.”
You are also likely to have inclinations and assumptions you share with one philosophy over the others
You are unlikely to “be” one kind of philosophy only and in the extreme
Liberating for both the oppressed and oppressor
Knowledge=Power -> Knowledge/Power
Becoming conscious and aware of hidden power structures
P. Freire, bell hooks,
Social Reconstructivism
Learning-- intrinsic motivation
Choice and free will
Humanities: meaning-making
Individualism and freedom. Existence precedes essence
AS Neil, M. Greene
Using one’s minds well (socratic)
Against “technical” or instrumental knowledge
Great books curriculum
“Conservative”-- profound and enduring
R. Hutchins (recall from Ravitch)
Core knowledge, intellectual capital
Nationalistic, paternalistic
Back to basics approach
“Conservative”--cultural literacy
W. Bagley, E.D. Hirsch (recall from Rav)
Discipline
What should be mandatory?
Moral development?
Social, political, economic
What is intelligence?
Knowing vs doing
Who decides what you are interested in? When?
No, different people are interested in different things
Why shouldn’t everyone receive the same curriculum and course of instruction?
No, it’s just that not everyone needs Algebra, maybe some other kind of math
Are the only things worth knowing things that you use then?
Because you don’t need it in the real world
“Algebra is not important to learn” Why?
Examples of each in the movie
