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Sunday, March 17, 2002 Why are We in School Again? An interesting quote from Steve's Education and Society Page, especially for those of us in school.... "Schools and colleges have until now (to recap briefly) served a society that needed reliable, predictable human components. Appropriately enough, they spent overwhelming amounts of time and energy ironing out those human impulses and capabilities which seemed errant. Since learning involves behavioral change, lifelong learning was the most errant of behaviors and was not to be countenanced. Educational institutions, therefore, were geared to stop learning. Perhaps half of all learning ability was squelched in the earliest elementary grades, where children found out that there exist predetermined and unyielding "right answers" for everything, that following instructions is what really counts and, most surprisingly, that the whole business of education is mostly dull and painful." --George B. Leonard, journalist and educational consultant, Education and Ecstasy (1968) ^ Top | 7:01 PM | | | 
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