Joe Jackson (shoeless@erols.com)
Sat, 5 Feb 2000 07:38:22 -0500
> If
> we didn't
> "Monday-morning quarterback" decisions like these, we'd never learn
> anything.
OK good point.
> In large part because of the ill after-effects of the Civil War
> and WWI, the US's policy towards losing countries has changed
> dramatically;
> helping rebuild these countries has become more common than not. It's a
> pity we didn't figure that out before we trashed half of our own society.
>
> >The way you go about freeing our educational system is by throwing it out
> >the window. I thought we had already established that.
>
> Just throw it out the window? And then what? Re-educate the
> vast majority
> over night? Or do you think everyone will just "naturally" fall in? It's
> not going to happen. Period. It has to happen in steps of some kind. Or
> it's not going to happen at all. That's just the reality of the
> situation.
When I say throw it out I don't mean stop the mainstream system overnight, I
mean you throw it out and start a new system and let it take root and grow.
That's what we have done.
What we cannot do is change the existing system. That's been tried ad
nauseum, and the failure of that approach is what gave birth to this model.
In any case, throwing out the old system is exactly what we have done, and
in my opinion continuing that process would eventually free our students.
-JJ
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