tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post5243021292137061049..comments2023-03-30T07:59:35.962+02:00Comments on Small Wrinkles in Spacetime: Cloud SchoolJohn Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11647833154827132967noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post-62506240086105333742013-07-31T21:12:54.307+02:002013-07-31T21:12:54.307+02:00And.. furthermore,
"...We become just by doi...And.. furthermore,<br /><br />"...We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ones, brave by doing brave ones.’<br /><br />[Aristotle Niconachean Ethics, Book II, p.91.]<br /><br />Such learning is complemented by reason – and this involves teaching ‘the causes of things’.John Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647833154827132967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post-48485147965420630702013-07-31T21:10:16.798+02:002013-07-31T21:10:16.798+02:00You come across more trauma than I do. The paradox...You come across more trauma than I do. The paradox is that the desperate, the poor, the hardscrabble survivors, know that an 'education' is some kind of roadmap out of their current circumstances. The best we seem to be able to offer them is nothing more than upgraded Victorian methods clothed in smart educational psychobabble. Aristotle's philosophy of education is a testament to the belief that our thinking and practice as educators must be infused with a clear philosophy, without which the ship is rudderless, wallowing between one opinion then another. There should be a deep concern for the ethical and political - read 'spiritual'- with an emphasis on breadth and balance. He continually asked 'what makes for human flourishing?' From this, policies need to work for that which is good or ‘right’, rather than that which is merely ‘correct’.John Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11647833154827132967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20646240.post-72150974892903327182013-07-29T22:31:36.788+02:002013-07-29T22:31:36.788+02:00May traditional education die soon. Really.
Lear...May traditional education die soon. Really. <br /><br />Learners need control, choice, and opportunity to manage their own process. "One size fits all" has never been accurate in any sense - not education, clothes, or religion. Given options, any individual with a need to know something can find that something. Whether a single fact or a body of knowledge, this is true.<br /><br />All I can say is that as long as "education" is primarily provided in a classroom where the same information is fed to mostly unengaged, disinterested, mandated students, there will always be a large number of marginalised learners, traumatised in the process of "getting an education." <br /><br />For shame.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com