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Peacemaker · (#11 (**permalink**))

lilthuggy wrote:

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Are yousuprised?confused3

This is nothing new.

The new thing is; it is up to US to change things.

Good luck with that, they only way that can change is to create a whole new system of education available to everyone for free.

You see a good educational system should have three purposes:

1) It should provide all who want to learn with access to available resources at any time in their lives.

2) Empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them.

3) And to furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.

Such a system would require the application of constitutional guarantees to education. Learners should not be forced to submit to an obligatory curriculum, or to discrimination based on whether they possess a certificate or a diploma.

Nor should the public be forced to support, through a regressive taxation, a huge professional apparatus of educators and buildings which in fact restricts the public's chances for learning to the services the profession is willing to put on the market.

It should use modern technology to make free speech, free assembly, and a free press truly universal and, therefore, fully educational.

Currently schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags. New educational institutions would break apart this pyramid. Their purpose must be to facilitate access for the learner: to allow him to look into the windows of the control room or the parliament, if he cannot get in by the door. Moreover, such new institutions should be channels to which the learner would have access without credentials or pedigree — public spaces in which peers and elders outside his immediate horizon would become available.

Ivan Illich.

Question is should people be wanting to continue with an educational system, which not only is corrupt as it's sole purpose is to make childrenready for the world's wage related labour market, whicheventually polarises society, and alienates people, since thecurrentsystemis a system of discrimination at it's core. You need this to do that, and that to do this, etc, etc.

The amount of money wasted on the education system is laughable also, since it has achieved nothing. The poor aren't getting smarter, nor are they getting employed more readily. The teachers aren't getting better either. However being taught doesn't always equate to learning something regardless of who does the teaching..

I hear alot about kids being discriminated in schools, but not actually much about the schooling system itself which is terrible as far as I'm concerned, it breeds elitism and creates and helps perpetuate an alreadyfragmented society. What's being suggested not only helps children but the adults as well.

However it is the people who must desire a change first.