Originally posted by Roses in the
[email protected] 29 2005, 12:53 AM
I think children need to be taught education is intrinsically a good thing. It's not all about getting a job. Primary education should be maintained to give kids a basic grounding in the 'essentials:' language, maths, basic science, a little history and I'd even philosophy. After they know what the subjects are they'd be better versed to make a infomed decision on what area (if any) they want to persue...
Despite Rousseau's draconian anti-feminist principals :lol: Something I like to refer to as the "Bride of Frakenstein" his ideas as far as holistic education and educating "human beings" to exist in and through the world was quite revolutionary.
This seems to be more the pedagogy of both Che Guevara and later the educationalist Paulo Freire.
It is interesting that mostly self-entitled males who have had free access to education are more anxious for release from these "prisons" of education.
WHile I also deplore the conditions of the modern school room, and the prison of its confinement, I think the subjects of literacy, language, poetry, theory, philosophy, and art, in addition to the technical trades, of which each person should have a specialization.
THose who deplore such classrooms have never been shut out from them perhaps, but I agree with Virginia Woolf when she stated in "A Room Of One's Own" following her barment from Oxford, and the Oxbridge library, "I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in."(Wolfe,1929)
I dream of more the Renaissance woman or man, who has a technical trade, but also a "liberal" education in the humanities.
In addition to this, I think everyone should know how to build a shelter, start a fire, grow food, follow plant development. It has been proven time and time again that growing plants is beneficial for children in subtle ways that increases their health and resilence.
In transferring to a Communist society, I would wish to see healing education through service learning, nature walks while determining different species of soil, fauna, and animals. Camping trips in small groups with a teacher under the stars.
My ideal class would be a group of ten on a thousand mile trail with packs and guidebooks, some books of poetry and mathematics as well as philosophy, and journals for writing and journaling. THis is how much of the naturalist education which developed the Enlightenment was created and I think it is still rationale.