May 24, 2005

Violet Warfare Analysis

ReadOne of the major disconnects between rural and urban lifestyles is the credit for knowledge gap. Urban areas insist that education comes from elite ivy league schools, while rural inhabitants know that learning centers about the school of hard knocks. Every rural landowner has the equivalent smarts to a current college degree, at a minimum, yet gets little recognition for his life experience. (If he didn't, could he really manage and keep the property?) When shared, youth feast on these excursions with real salt of the earth people. A good raconteur is worth her weight in gold in a classroom setting.
ThisKids learn by doing, and a tale teller makes listening into an active experience. She involves the class in a participatory effort and demonstrates the ability to laugh in the face of adversity. In other words, a real role model/mentor arrangement that demonstrates that all adults are not disciplinarians. If the edutocracy would value the contribution, rather than continue the bias that holds such people in contempt and scorn, then our youth education would be better served by the general community at large.

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