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Re: [xmca] abolish schools?
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- From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:03:57 +1000
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I am sympathetic to a total critique of existing schooling
practices but IMHO the proposed solution is insane.
The VC of the University of Melbourne (previously an ancient
historian) arrived at the idea that "World of Warfare" was a
model of the university of the near future. Fortunately he
left before ruining the university entirely. Mad.
The author simply gives up on what is admittedly an almost
insuperable problem, trying to rectify a global social
crisis in school classrooms, by abanoning resistance to the
forces he is complaining about.
Andy
Colette Murphy wrote:
Please see this article - I'd be very grateful for any feedback, particularly re the comments pertaining to Korea...
Thanks a lot
colette
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/03/if-i-ruled-the-world-8/
Dr Colette Murphy
Senior Lecturer
School of Education
Queen's University
Belfast BT7 1NN
tel: 02890975953
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