Education: Do We Really Need Schools Or Do We Need To Better Understand What Education Should Really Be?
Written by on September 29th, 2007 in Information Access, Learning-Educational Technologies, Learning - Educational Technologies.
How do we educate our children to be active, critical thinkers and not dumb passive consumers serving someone else interests? For however strange this may sound to you, it may have been "marketing" itself to bring us the terrible education system most civilized countries have adopted in the last century or so. Photo credit: Ophelia Cherry "The advent of mass production required a growth in mass consumption as well, but back then most people "considered it both unnatural and unwise to buy things they didn\’t actually need". "We don\’t need Karl Marx\’s conception of a grand warfare between the classes to see that it is in the interest of complex management, economic or political, to dumb people down, to demoralize …