school-work

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 15:34:21 PST


Like Phillip, I was really depressed by Geof's description of the scene
in the UK and hope that Helena will point us to something with more of a
future.

I actually worried about these issues directly more than 30 years ago, too,
and it is horrendous to see the basic skills, measured by paper and pencil
tests, and the notion that such skills are supposed to be autonous and
infinitely retrievable, still around.

The wastage in human lives and company time that such policies entail is
so tremendous it seems impossible that it could remain in place so
firmly. Yet it does.

Might this bespeak the possibility that creating such wastage, like creating
school failure, is central to the enterprise? If not, of what does it speak?
mike



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