Misadventures in Education
at around evening time on Monday, the 9th of January 2006 by Capt Jake Fortune
Eden at Just One Bite tells us about a conversation with, well, someone who would be my wife’s relatives.
In Alice’s world, K-12 education would be standardized on a federal level. All schools would teach exactly the same thing, with flexibility for some units about local history and issues, and all schools would be clean and safe, with devoted, brilliant, motivational teachers who are paid like rock stars. The happy, excited students would spend two years in required community service, then trounce off to affordable colleges where they could study Plato and Newton and Chaucer (preferably segregated by sex so as to not distract the young adults with sex when they should be learning). Then, they would proceed to grad school for professional training or be welcomed into high-paying jobs — though not with greedy multinational corporations — where their open and well-informed minds would quickly catch onto the skills required. It’s like a freakin’ science fiction novel and she thinks it’s all possible if schools were simply given more money.Allow me to pause for laughter.
Yeah, people do think like that. My sister is soon to join the realms of the teacher class. She’s well grounded in reality, but it will still be amusing to see what she thinks in just a year…
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