January 05, 2007

is this really real

"day-long day care for 5-year-olds receives its real electoral support because parents want some relief from the expense of child day care for 5-year-olds, which has been made necessary by the fact that both mom and dad now have to work outside the home to fund day-long government day care for 6-to-18-year-olds"

Vin Suprynowicz
has a distict spin on gummint skools. If you consider the opinion against the supported fact, you might find that Vin's hypothesis carries a little more weight. If we have the opportunity to make predictions on the value that we can achieve without skuls to use as a case study, perhaps we can tease a few more supports to end the monopoly on education.

Industry is worried that the youth do not have employable skills - but skuls demonize critical thinking and creative thinking both. If a child is thinking through a thought, he is not paying attention to the teacher babbling in front of the room. In order to teach effectively, you have to discuss things with your audience to see that they are tracking and then continue on to the bundled concepts. To understand bundled concepts, you first must be able to apply simple concepts, and then grasp their implications enough to put them to proper use. Everyone can learn something well and build from that base. All things considered is really not all things - it just are the things you know and rarely includes the realm of all things that we don't know. Everyone knows more about something than somebody else, but being able to communicate that knowledge is not the same as having the knowledge. Most people are scared sh*tless of teaching, because they know what they don't know and don't want the responsibility of getting it wrong. But interpersonal learning is what we do with our family, our own. And how you know is by understanding within the frame of reference that you built as applicable.

Books contain information, and ways of putting information to good use. Ghandi's satyagraha and Rand's galt's gulch illustrate concepts that the literates of my grandparents generation were aware of endemic concepts in the system and were attempting to warn us in the future of what has come to pass - to stave off the life of Kafka's K, which became to pass as Solzhenitsyn's reality. Or was Heinlein's Starship Troopers the ticket. All the same. Depends what you apply yourself to. My spell checker says : brain quit this line now.

Vin's book the Black Arrow is a good read. Having conceptualized a similar novel, i decided that that was not how i wanted to cover time in my space. Non-fiction is much more important to make it to the readers of tomorrow and Carroll discussed the meaning of words quite well in Alice's adventures. 'Here's lookin at you, kid.'

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