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Joe Gauld... on Education
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---The educational mafia has never understood that all learning begins with the development of character and a sense of purpose.
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The Joe needs to read up on the GodFather of modern education:
The Call for Character Education
Historically, Dewey believed that moral education could not be divorced from the school curriculum. Rather it should be delivered through all of the “agencies, instrumentalities, and materials of school life” (Dewey, 1909).
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http://www.collegevalues.org/articles.cfm?a=1&id=571
Anonymous:
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--- Quote ---The educational mafia has never understood that all learning begins with the development of character and a sense of purpose.
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The Joe needs to read up on the GodFather of modern education:
The Call for Character Education
Historically, Dewey believed that moral education could not be divorced from the school curriculum. Rather it should be delivered through all of the “agencies, instrumentalities, and materials of school life” (Dewey, 1909).
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http://www.collegevalues.org/articles.cfm?a=1&id=571
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I don't class Joe among Horace Mann, Dewey, and the moral educators. In my opinion, all of Joe's talk of "becoming a better person," "integrity," "character," "leadership," etc. etc., is just Joe paying lip-service to conventional morality. What Joe is trying to do, in my opinion, is make kids competitive, motivated, unafraid of risks, and so forth, qualities which, whether Hyde wants to admit it or not, are instrumental above all to success in the economic marketplace. For Joe, success is a function of intelligence for the gifted few, and of character for the ungifted many. His preference for sports over academics, for attitude over aptitude, for the active life over the contemplative life, can be explained in this connection.
Whether or not one agrees that competitiveness is a laudable end, one is hard put to agree that brother's keeper, seminars, and all the group-mediated behavior devices used to break down an individual's resistance to Joe's prescribed program, should he not choose to go along with it, are laudable means. This is where the serious damage creeps in. It's damaging not only for the "losers," who are merely training material for the "winners," it's damaging for the "winners," if they have a conscience.
Anonymous:
I think you have hit on something there. Joe's system is setup to reward people like Joe: ungifted, quotidian, average but hardworking optimistic and ambitious. The system is setup to punish the intellectually gifted as you know from your experience. I bet Joe is filled with sangfroid when ever he thinks of his 14 AP calculus prodigy going off into life as a failure. I can see him feeling the part Salieri in the shadow of Mozart, filled with envy of the natural ability of a 14 year old master concepts with ease that poor old Joe had to pound into his own head.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---It's damaging not only for the "losers," who are merely training material for the "winners," it's damaging for the "winners," if they have a conscience.
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Could not have said better myself. One of my rallying cries. If something is that toxic for one, eventually it'll be toxic for them all. If they have a conscience.
Ursus:
--- Quote from: ""Guest"" ---I bet Joe is filled with sangfroid when ever he thinks of his 14 AP calculus prodigy going off into life as a failure.
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He sure as hell brings him up enough! That poor chap has unwittingly become part of the Hyde mythology just by having had the misfortune to run into Ol' Lucifer himself in a prior generation...
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