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INTRODUCTION

July 11, 2009 No comments yet

Introduction There is nothing inherently good about education, schooling or learning. Learning can be either very good or very bad, depending on what is learnt, how it is learnt and what it is designed to do. Clive Harber (p7) A question I have asked myself many times is: what is education and what is it [...]

What's Wrong With School?

PREFACE

July 9, 2009 No comments yet

PREFACE A lifetime in education taught me the lesson of deferred gratification, which is really foregone gratification. It taught me to accept the unacceptable; to detach from the screams within; to pursue the academic without feeling, well not without: sometimes with boredom, sometimes with fear, very, very rarely with exhilaration at an idea that resonates. [...]