John Gatto from “Against School” online “Boredom is the
common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a
teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited
attitudes, to be found there. When asked whythey feel bored, the teachers tend to blame the kids,
as you might expect. Who wouldn't get bored teaching students who are rude and
interested only in grades?”
Ken Robinson taken from his book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything “Those students whose minds work
differently—and we’re talking about many students here; perhaps even the
majority of them—can feel alienated from the whole culture of education”
Mike Rose on his resolutions article ““to have more young
people get an engaging and challenging education.”
John Gatto from “Against School” online “Mass
schooling of a compulsory nature really got its teeth into the United States
between 1905 and 1915, though it was conceived of much earlier and pushed for
throughout most of the nineteenth century. The reason given for this enormous
upheaval of family life and cultural traditions was, roughly speaking,
threefold:
1) To make good people.
2) To make good citizens.
3) To make each person his or her personal best.”
bell hooks from the class selection in “Critical Thinking”
Handout “Thinking is an action. For all aspiring intellectuals, thoughts are
the laboratory where one goes to pose questions and find answers, and the place
where visions of theory and praxis come together”.
bell hooks “Critical Thinking“ handout “When students are fully engaged,
professors no longer assume the sole leadership role in the classroom”
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