[lbo-talk] Liberals

[Mark Bennett]

I certainly don't know how bad things are.  I always assume that things are
more or less the same as when I attended California public schools in the
60s and 70s, which it now appears was something of a golden age for public
education.  No one thought so at the time.  When I hear how bad things are
now, I find it hard to believe, but the worst tales are often confirmed by
experience (i.e., talking to a 25 year-old professional who has no idea when
the Vietnam war took place, and who believes that the Civil War occurred in
the 1960s.)

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Art is not a "goodie."
>
> You have no clue how bad things have gotten in the schools.
>
> They are currently being run by bureaucrats who have no knowledge of
> content but understand "faster" "earlier" and "more", the sum of which
> equals success. And they are the ones who set curriculum and decide whether
> teachers are competent.
>
> Joanna
>
> Agreed however about
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 11:28:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Liberals
>
> Dennis makes a good point. I want to suggest that for a century U.S.
> education (and probably Europeant systems as well) has been grounded on
> a disastrously false Theory of Schooling, and that instead of throwing
> stupid spitballs and childish squawks at teachers and schools we should
> be making a serious attempt to define that theory and to subject it to
> critique. As a first approximation:
>
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