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i think the second question's answers might refer to the events that changed school policies in the past. events like the integration of schools would be be a good example
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I really have no clue what to say if I mentioned integration of schools. How would that influence my educational opportunities? This question is so confusing (to me) and I really don't know what it is asking for.
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They're asking what educational reform made the school career you're able to follow now possible. Try to imagine what you would be doing 50 years ago, something along those lines.
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Oh this makes a lot more sense now lol. Thank you very much Frits!
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It sounds like your answers to the first question require more development also. However, the question is pretty tough since it doesn't say "in America." At least it does for the second question.
For the first question you can relate schools prior to Mann to schools post Mann, but I see you also are aiming for much more recent developments.... and I don't think "oh there was racist" is quite sufficient and I hope you weren't planning on that :p
The second question is easy if you are in a previously underprivileged group, or if you are someone who normally wouldn't want to attend school via a religious institution or private school.
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Horace Mann didn't just "take initiative to establish schools", that fucker bloody imported the Prussian edu system to combine state and education so kids would become obedient automatons. His philosophy is responsible for shitty USA public schools.
Gatto emphasizes how the Prussian model set the standard for educational systems right up to the present. "The whole system was built on the premise that isolation from first-hand information and fragmentation of the abstract information presented by teachers would result in obedient and subordinate graduates, properly respectful of arbitrary orders," he writes. He says the American educationists imported three major ideas from Prussia. The first was that the purpose of state schooling was not intellectual training but the conditioning of children "to obedience, subordination, and collective life." Thus, memorization outranked thinking. Second, whole ideas were broken into fragmented "subjects" and school days were divided into fixed periods "so that self-motivation to learn would be muted by ceaseless interruptions." Third, the state was posited as the true parent of children. All of this was done in the name of a scientific approach to education, although, Gatto says, "no body of theory exists to accurately define the way children learn, or what learning is of most worth."
of course if you wrote about that stuff it might not go down well with the prof. But for anyone else who doesn't have an assignment due tomorrow, heres more info:
http://www.sntp.net/education/school_state_3.htm
This stuff gets me hopping mad to think that a few men + the gov are responsible for putting kids through such a pulverizing machine. Of course schools have evolved into better entities, and my school certainly wasn't half bad, but if it wasn't for him, what would a edu system based on nurturing children look like today? and what type of citizens would be formed by it? How much smarter would the general public be? and what innovations can come from such a society?
Its just frustrating because kids would never know the difference/have nothing to compare with, parents don't give a shit because they dont know what its like or have gone through the same and accept it as normal, the only people who know enough to stand up against it are the teachers themselves, but of course they are paid by the very institution, so theres a lot of negative incentive to encorage them to play the role.
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On October 14 2009 19:20 Frits wrote:
They're asking what educational reform made the school career you're able to follow now possible. Try to imagine what you would be doing 50 years ago, something along those lines.
Yeah just whine about how you could have been making 10cents a day in a factory
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i couldve been an established coal miner by now
actually i couldve been one for about 8 years now, wow
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