Peyton Place

Peyton Place es una película controversial de los 50's. El director de la escuela tiene varias enseñanzas respecto al sistema educativo:

Dirigiéndose al consejo de administración de la escuela:
"To people like you, education is just a necessary evil.
You can't see it, so it's worth nothing.
Well, let me tell you this, Mr. Harrington...
The things we can't see are the most important things on this earth.
They're called ideas. "

Dos reglas para la educación productiva:
"First, I want this school to teach the truth, as far as we know it.
I don't want any teacher making a fairy tale out of life.
It's hard enough as it is without being unequipped to meet it.
And rule two...
teach a minimum of facts and a maximum of ideas.
Our job is to teach children how to think...
not just to memorize for a couple of weeks."

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

Excelente entrevista con John Gatto :).

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Schools, he says, are irremediably broken. Built to supply a mass-production economy with a docile workforce, they ask too little of children, and thereby drain youngsters of curiosity and autonomy.

...the truth is that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Memorizing notes off the board is not real work.

To teach people that we work to get money to buy stuff is insane...

...a school system, since it's an indoctrination system...

"Changing classes lasts 300 seconds to keep promiscuous fraternization at low levels."

Él escribió esto también The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher muy recomendable.