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Politics : Libertarian Discussion Forum
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To: Don Lloyd who wrote (5040)1/5/2002 10:52:51 PM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (1) of 13056
 
The Joy of Freedom: An Economist's Odyssey
by David R. Henderson

an excerpt on government compulsory education -

"[John Gatto]...when the United States abandoned freedom of education in the nineteenth century, it explicitly adopted the Prussian system and for the same reasons Prussia adopted it: to teach obedience and limit learning....

..."The whole system ... would result in obedient and subordinate graduates, properly respectful of arbitrary orders." Here is what Gatto says of the famous philosopher John Dewey, a fan of the Prussian system:

Dewey said that the great mistake of traditional pedagogy has been to make reading and writing the bulk of early schoolwork. He advocated that the phonics method of teaching reading be abandoned and replaced by the whole-word method, not because the latter was more efficient (he admitted it was less efficient), but because reading hard books produces independent thinkers, thinkers who cannot be socialized very easily...."

Regards, Don
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