- Judy
>This means that "fun instead of work" conditions in any school will
>on the average boost the differences between those that already have
>learnt how to have fun at "decontextualized" (formal, game-like,
>purely symbolic) tasks, and those that haven't had those cultural
>contexts in their early years. Also, the creative, problem-solving,
>puzzle-loving individuals will be rewarded while the rule-following,
>reproductive, routine-loving ones will be looked at as dull and
>unattractive.
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>This looks like a different sort of elitist system than the one that=20
>paid the highest price for the most disciplined engineer and=20
>entrepreneur.
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>But it does produce the world's highest pace in innovations, both
>technical ones, and sociopolitical ones (Reaganomics, "Flat Taxes!",
>etc.) -- apparently at the cost of not giving enough education
>to the masses of people destined for so-called non-creative jobs.
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>You see: Texts like this one are indeed provoking.
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>What do you think ?
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>Arne.
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>Arne Raeithel
>Privatdozent am Fachbereich Psychologie
>der Universit=E4t Hamburg
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Judy Diamondstone
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
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