How come more people aren’t blogging on this sight? Here’s a question for all of you out there: How can we help students to stay in school for the entire year? Why do students leave?
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.
Ivan Illich Deschooling Society (1973: 9)
December 4th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
OK, lets blog!
December 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
test dec 5
December 5th, 2008 at 11:48 am
Hey, does this work?
December 5th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
…. how did you kno…
December 9th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
nice idea jay!!
December 11th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
hey ya go…:D
December 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
hey lets go then…:D
December 11th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hey! Why hasn’t anyone else written on this blog? Merry Christmas everyone!
December 12th, 2008 at 10:08 am
lets blog
December 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am
ya hurry up
December 15th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
So this is the blog… eh?
Sweet!
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
How come more people aren’t blogging on this sight? Here’s a question for all of you out there: How can we help students to stay in school for the entire year? Why do students leave?
February 5th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
So… uhm.. yeah…. what up pplz?
February 18th, 2009 at 10:37 am
hey y’all! hows it going since december 12th? thats the last time somebody worte on here. anyways better write back. pCe
February 20th, 2009 at 11:09 am
So now does anyone know that this is here? I forgot! hehe If anyone reads this I hope that you have a great day!!!!!
April 17th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
We could help students stay in school by convincing them that blogging is a
fruitless endeavour and only serves to plug them into the virtual abyss
April 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Many students, especially those who are poor, intuitively know what the schools do for them. They school them to confuse process and substance. Once these become blurred, a new logic is assumed: the more treatment there is, the better are the results; or, escalation leads to success. The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new. His imagination is “schooled” to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work. Health, learning, dignity, independence, and creative endeavour are defined as little more than the performance of the institutions which claim to serve these ends, and their improvement is made to depend on allocating more resources to the management of hospitals, schools, and other agencies in question.
Ivan Illich Deschooling Society (1973: 9)