On Nov 30, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> lmost _all_ criticisms of education and/or the schools, past and
> present, share a fundamental error: they implicitly treat education as
> an independent facotor, with causation running from it to the
> society at
> large.
C'mon, Carrol, you spent decades as a teacher at a public institution. Isn't it worth talking about what you did, how you could have done things differently, what you learned, what other people can do within the institutional constraints that everyone operates under, etc.? This kind of fatalism does no one any good except the ruling class.
Doug