[lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

Miles Jackson milesvjackson at comcast.net
Wed Feb 15 07:41:45 PST 2012


On 2/15/2012 4:19 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> A note on the kids: what they need far more than ideal teachers is more pay,
> mor free time for their parents. Also, discussion of 'education' on this
> list has pretty much ignored the _actual_ schooling in the U.S. over the
> last 150 years. That schooling has had three major functions:
>
> 1 Warehousing
> 2 Certification
> 3 Indoctrination
>
> Carrol

4. Producing people who critically analyze the school system (--or perhaps you developed those intellectual skills on your own?)

Miles



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