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Wednesday, June 20. 2007

Abolish Compulsory Education

There are plenty of provocative ideas in this piece in The American Thinker that make sense to me. Education cannot be bought, even though it is marketed as if it could be. Credentials can be - and nowadays, must be - bought, but not education. All education is self-education.
Posted by The Barrister in Education, Politics at 13:50 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Amen to comment on education
#1 bengrayen on 2007-06-20 18:01 (Reply)
I just saw a pretty good movie called, ' Something the Lord Made', the other night. It was the story of a black man in the 1930s who taught himself to be an uncredentialed pioneering heart surgeon. In todays world, unfettered by racism this man would have had no problem being credentialed.
But you hit the nail on the head in your last sentence: " All education is self-education". All you need is the desire to learn and I think our present educational system fails to instill that desire in our students today.
#2 sean on 2007-06-20 23:49 (Reply)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking

...not being taught.
#3 buddy larsen on 2007-06-21 11:56 (Reply)

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