On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:14 AM, saul ostrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> very english Public School and ivy thinking - not very American public > school were literacy was the goal "... where literacy was the goal." and later > Actually, what seems to have done this was the destruction of the middle > classes who once thought education was not only a way to get ahead but to > improve one's self - sometime in the 70s when the middle classes because > they were the only one with economic reserves became economically > vulnerable as such improving oneself came to mean preserving oneself > economically - the irony is that today, education does not guarantee one > will do better than their parents So it comes down to a Marxist view of history in terms of economic struggles? Or do you mean the 70s, when the 60s radicals began to get faculty positions in high schools and colleges and to promote the notion that "right" and "wrong" answers are social constructs that only serve to sustain the hegemony of privilege? That preferences of grammatical forms and logical arguments are social discriminators that promote the racist subtext of society? That effort and intent are equivalent to results? That rote work in school is conditioning the drones for the assembly line? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
