[Nectar] The Failure of Modern Public Education

[Guest guest]

> ...The truth is that schools don't

> really teach anything except how to obey orders."

>

> "Schools are intended to produce, through the application of formulas,

> formulaic human beings whose behavior can be predicted and

> controlled."

 

These generalizations appear to be true to-day, but when I went to school --

in the fifties -- though I did have these impressions sometimes, overall I

felt that education was necessary and that school was giving it. I enjoyed

my maths, physics and chemistry. (I was highly suspicious of the history

though.)

 

Rd