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<blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2985682" data-attributes="member: 18914"><p>Pokeinfun - I had a teacher in high school who used to say "in this school, hard work, diligent study, and honest effort make success. If you want that progressive nonsense go to John Dewey High School, not Stuyvesant High School". John Dewey doesn't deserve credit for his invention of educational theory - all he did was adopt and adapt the Socratic method. You are also only telling half the story.</p><p>A significant problem with many theories of education as espoused by modern "teaching colleges" is that there is a built-in assumption that teaching "how to think" is synonymous with teaching the "right things" to think. Increasingly schools have become intolerant not just to what might be called fringe ideas but, in fact, have worked actively to retrain children away from what are judged to be the regressive beliefs of the children's parents and replace that with a half-developed pseudo-moral code. I thank God (literally) that I had a solid Catholic education before I was cast into the seas of the public schools and frankly back when I was school age the social engineering aspect of public school was much milder than it is today. This whole thread reflects a crack-pot theory about social impact of guns (i.e. that guns themselves, even images of guns and anything related to them are evil in and of themselves) - almost entirely from a leftist viewpoint - that is then foisted as the "responsibility" of the school to enforce, for the good of the children of course. There are many wonderful, dedicated teachers out there working hard every day in public, private, parochial, and homeschools but the educational industry as embodied especially in the education degree teaching colleges is off it's rocker and I cannot imagine a group of people I would less like teaching anything to my kids (or my grandkids) than most graduate-level education professors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mugsy, post: 2985682, member: 18914"] Pokeinfun - I had a teacher in high school who used to say "in this school, hard work, diligent study, and honest effort make success. If you want that progressive nonsense go to John Dewey High School, not Stuyvesant High School". John Dewey doesn't deserve credit for his invention of educational theory - all he did was adopt and adapt the Socratic method. You are also only telling half the story. A significant problem with many theories of education as espoused by modern "teaching colleges" is that there is a built-in assumption that teaching "how to think" is synonymous with teaching the "right things" to think. Increasingly schools have become intolerant not just to what might be called fringe ideas but, in fact, have worked actively to retrain children away from what are judged to be the regressive beliefs of the children's parents and replace that with a half-developed pseudo-moral code. I thank God (literally) that I had a solid Catholic education before I was cast into the seas of the public schools and frankly back when I was school age the social engineering aspect of public school was much milder than it is today. This whole thread reflects a crack-pot theory about social impact of guns (i.e. that guns themselves, even images of guns and anything related to them are evil in and of themselves) - almost entirely from a leftist viewpoint - that is then foisted as the "responsibility" of the school to enforce, for the good of the children of course. There are many wonderful, dedicated teachers out there working hard every day in public, private, parochial, and homeschools but the educational industry as embodied especially in the education degree teaching colleges is off it's rocker and I cannot imagine a group of people I would less like teaching anything to my kids (or my grandkids) than most graduate-level education professors. [/QUOTE]
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