Klarinet Archive - Posting 000368.txt from 2001/02

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] chaos being sold for freedom...
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 23:10:49 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: webler [mailto:webler@-----.net]
>
> <The end result has come to be seen among many serious educators
> as a need
> to
> "teach children to learn on their own" or "teach children to think
> independently" or some other form of the same idea>
>
> Karl,
>
> You have shown great understanding of the education system as it stands
> right now. The main problem with this method is the fact that a child or
> youngster cannot think independently unless he/she has something to think
> independently with.
>
>

Exactly right. And until the process has evolved far enough to take
effective account of this, the result will be unpredictable and unreliable.
Nobody at this point has the complete answer, although a great many people
think they do.

Karl

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