Ania Lian (ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:07:42 +1000 (EST)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 10:07:42 +1000 (EST) From: Ania Lian <ania@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au> Subject: re: "true learning"
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> > "The main point for our discussion, specifically, is that if we are born to
> > learn directly one-on-one from people who are to as individually as
> > possible nourish, protect and help us grow, perhaps that is how we are
> > to learn from and train others, also. If true learning and training are our
> > purpose, it must be so. If our purpose becomes to supply cannon fodder
> > or assembly line automatons, or service industry helping hands, then
> > maybe some other system is correct."
> > Dennis R. Nelson
The thought in this quote echoes concerns like: give women education so
that then they can stay at home with the children and give them the best
that the children need. Otherwise, we end up with the horrifying
consequences of a mass-system of childcare, etc. etc.
Maybe a nice thought, but lacks a reference to anything other than fear
and a belief in some absolute authority. The desired model of education
proposed by Dennis, therefore, holds no ingredients for stimulating
reflection and change.
Ania Lian
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