Tracy on October 16th, 2009
Interesting new video up on You Tube featuring Noam Chomsky regarding The Role of the Educational System.
Noam Chomsky, an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the goals of education and the purposes of the education system in this video.
I also noted a few thought provoking articles [...]
Helen on August 4th, 2009
Some of the most radical and free-thinking educational critics of the 20th century said that we go to school to “be instructed on our own inferiority.” Schools As Colonizers: The Deschoolers of the 1960s, by Kirsten Olsen (VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K., 2008) examines the problems of institutionalized education from the vantage of the [...]
