Re: [xmca] Education: Thanks Robert Lake

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Yep, this one is a duzzer (sp).
mike


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>wrote:

> Thanks Mike,
> I love it when the "strange becomes familiar and the familiar becomes
> strange.
> RL
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> For some reason your quotation from Dewey struck me just now, Robert,
>> often
>> as I have seen it. It got me to thinking along with thinking about AERA
>> and
>> its events and face-to-face time. Nice to be able to "see it" at a
>> distance, but real time IS real time.
>>
>> Here is the quotation:
>>  *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its
>> midwife.*
>> *-*John Dewey.
>>
>> We talk a lot about metaphors around xmca and the metaphor of a midwife
>> for
>> education is certainly a potent metaphor.
>>
>> Would we put up with the success rate for education if that
>> social/institution's success rate is less than that of the midewife.
>> So what kind of a midwife is education, anyway? Where does the metaphor
>> lead us?
>>
>> If you pick up some helpful pointers in Vancouver, let us all know!
>>
>> :-))
>> mike
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> Social Foundations of Education
> Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
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>  *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its
> midwife.*
> *-*John Dewey.
>
>
>
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