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Are Teaching the Wrong Things in the Wrong Ways I want to say first, that it is not the teachers' fault. They were taught how to teach. They work in fear. They will be fired if they don't do what they are taught and told to do. They are paid to reproduce the system, not to question or change it. -- I thought of these words this morning when I was searching for answers to the question of what is wrong in America, in the Catholic Church and in the really large systems of society. I was thinking about Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska. This is where a huge child abuse network has apparently been operating for many years. It is hard for me to write about it. But I woke up thinking about it. It is so wrong, on so many levels, like what I saw in Goulburn, Australia involving Andy Divall. But what I wanted to write here was that I had searched "we are teaching the wrong things in the wrong ways" Here is the search:
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| Teachers are paid to reproduce the
system, not to question or change it. I was told once that the Secretary of Education said "The purpose of education is to reproduce society." I have not been able to confirm this, or even find anyone who is quoted as saying it, but it is worth thinking about for a long time. Today I had the thought that teachers are paid to reproduce the system, not to question it or change it, so I decided to do a little research with Google. I started my search to see what, if anything was found for "Teachers are paid to reproduce". That way it would find things like "paid to reproduce society" or "paid to reproduce the system". But as you can see, nothing was found even for my first search. a S Hein |
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| More detail 1. We are not teaching what is most needed now - things like conflict resolution, listening, following one's heart, disobeying, questioning, cooperating, anti-brainwashing, how to recognize bullshit. 2 we are not teaching things in the right way. - ie we are not giving enough freedom. too much punishment. learnng is for getting a job and being part of the system - not for changing the system. Consider this - is more education in the USA geared for preventing wars or winning wars? What is all the math and science for? Too much of it is for making weapons. And what about psychology - are psychologists uniting against war? Not that I have seen. But they are being used by the army and CIA it seems - for brainwashing, torture. And too much of it is for making money, not helping people. |
