John Gatto Prussian Education

[AngryHateMusic]

Dead on with the multiple choice questions. What a crock of shit they are.

[fringeelements]

I disagree a little bit. I think the "higher order thinking" that he refers to needs fact mastery. It is through the collection of facts that the higher order emerges. Trying to come up with a higher order theory without having enough facts leads to BS, or worse yet, coming up with the theory and then scouring for facts.

Of course, even knowing what facts to gather requires a theoretical filter.

[SailfishSoundSystem]

Superb!

[zezeoli]

There is a philosophical way of looking at public schooling politics.

The theory goes like this: the future is for 'doers' not 'thinkers'. In fact, too much knowledge and thinking leads to unhealthy hesitance & inactivity. More practically, it would preclude a high percentage of jobs currently carried out by some citizens.

Our society is eminently a firm of 'doers'..if you point it in the right direction, they assures tangible results!

[ixtasis]

wonderful. thank you

[35mm35]

I wouldn't call it utopia.  I would call it a slave state.

[cshah2]

brilliant stuff :-)



[DatDat56]

I definitely could agree on the topic of the literacy test, it came to a point where I realized I could breeze through a book but not actually take anything from it.

[bahoss]

New york City I love you :)

[Time2AnteUp]

@SowhatNC Can't Thank you enough for this video.

[CanadianBeaver]

Peace and Love!