miércoles, noviembre 15, 2006

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

Excelente entrevista con John Gatto :).

Algunas partes interesantes:

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.

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