tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post4764848870816899824..comments2023-10-18T05:06:49.026-05:00Comments on Missouri Education Watchdog: Chinese Olympian's Father Could Be An American Dad Some Daydsmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01501964533388756254noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3907677492250052991.post-51994345753769970812012-08-05T15:05:36.391-05:002012-08-05T15:05:36.391-05:00"Page three might well have been written by K..."Page three might well have been written by Karl Marx.<br /><br />'High-quality early childhood programs allow parents to go to work confident their children are in safe, nurturing environments.'<br /><br />Your job, parents, is to go to work. The state will provide daycare. You provide the raw materials for its needs."<br /><br />Angie you're on a roll this week.<br /><br />It's worth pointing out that Marx took his ideas from Hegel & Rousseau, which is where our modern system of education (the one that supplanted the 'system' of education that our Founders developed from), came from as well. It misses the point a little bit when we say that many in our schools, or designing their course-ware, or managing the schools, seem to have Marxist ideals - though often true, the more dangerous point is that our system of education is based upon the very same ideas as those which enabled Marx to become Marx in the first place.<br /><br />There are two general tracks in educational purpose: <br />The 1st is designed to communicate to a student the essential knowledge needed for developing the internal means and ability to govern themselves in pursuit of a life worth living.<br />The 2nd is designed to fit the student with those skills, which those in charge, deem most useful for the purposes of those in power.<br /><br />The 1st has no trouble accomodating and enabling the pursuit of useful skills - many times over. The 2nd cannot tolerate, except in the most shallow of bromides, examining what makes a life worth living - that risks letting ideas into students heads that might conflict with the plans that have been made by those in power. The 1st leads to an understanding of Individual Rights, Law and Liberty, enabling individuals to live their own lives. The 2nd favors centralizing and enlarging power, in order to arrange the lives of others so as to more efficiently distribute what wealth they manage to produce, as deemed most useful by those in power.<br /><br />Our modern system of education is designed with the aims and powers of the Chinese system as its goal and justification - <i>they are</i> the ideas that made the Chinese system possible.<br /><br />And what could possibly be wrong with that? Or... maybe better put, what could the person, who has never been taught those ideas central to a life worth living, possibly see as being wrong with that?Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com