Re: Mind's Eye Re: Some Education

Umm.. I dont know if Aezen is now a part of the group or not but ill still reply to him... even we in our country face a similar problem, of this robotic teaching... senseless rote learning. But i am really dissappointed with our syllabus change our school board did.. i think in trying to make stuff easier.. they are giving the people trash..i mean it.. i can confidently say.. I did not learn anything in school .. it was only after going to college that i began to think about stuff.. and it came like a bullet train.. and i was thinking.. what crap were they feeding me in school. The thing is.. not making the curriculum easy.. but giving time to the essential things...I cant think of alternative ways...I think it'll always be controversial ..what to teach the younger generation.. I think.. what worked for me in college was that i got a lot of my own time.. 

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:09 PM, pol.science kid <r.freebird@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey the link worked for me... 

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:13 PM, archytas <nwterry@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm not sure aezen is functional Molly.

On Apr 16, 12:50 pm, Molly <mollyb...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 15, 8:55 am, Æzen <ae...@msn.com> wrote:
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> > You may be interested in reading the article from which I have taken the
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> > "[...] The truly educated become conscious. They become self-aware. They do
> > not lie to themselves. They do not pretend that fraud is moral or that
> > corporate greed is good. They do not claim that the demands of the
> > marketplace can morally justify the hunger of children or denial of medical
> > care to the sick. They do not throw 6 million families from their homes as
> > the cost of doing business. Thought is a dialogue with one's inner self.
> > Those who think ask questions, questions those in authority do not want
> > asked. They remember who we are, where we come from and where we should go.
> > They remain eternally skeptical and distrustful of power. And they know
> > that this moral independence is the only protection from the radical evil
> > that results from collective unconsciousness. The capacity to think is the
> > only bulwark against any centralized authority that seeks to impose
> > mindless obedience. There is a huge difference, as Socrates understood,
> > between teaching people what to think and teaching them how to think. Those
> > who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those
> > sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to
> > live with criminals—themselves.
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> > Advertisement
> > "It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at
> > odds with myself," Socrates said. [...]"www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_the_united_states_is_destroying_her_...
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> > On Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:43:55 UTC+1, pol.science kid wrote:
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> > > Recently, i was part of some filed work in a village ... we were
> > > looking into primary education there.... well.. while doing the
> > > report.. i thought i couldnt really understand education.. clearly
> > > what works for the city kids wouldnt work for those in the rural
> > > side..most of them do think theyre wasting their time...teachers hate
> > > the kids kids hate the teachers..everyone is bitching... the situation
> > > is pretty bad.. those who can do get out.. actually primary education
> > > in my country is pretty beat up... now in know most of you are from
> > > the 'West'.. Sounds weird when i say it like that.. we're frequently
> > > told that primary education in the west is quite o.k. .... in fact
> > > good.. What do you guys think?.. Also... how do you define
> > > education..i almost hate the term by now.. get to hear it so much with
> > > people having no idea of what they mean.... what do you think..?

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