Q. "Not what you would like it to be but what its intended goal is.
slip...buzz wrong answer...
What you want (Everybody has one of these answers. It is fairly useless):
"a) to encourage and support, not crush, the natural love of learning which all children have, (my initial formulation was "to instill in all students a lifetime passion for learning," but on reflection I realized that everyone is born with this, and that all the schools need to do is NOT crush it, which they too often do)"
empty rhetoric...we are born with the nature and instinctive drives to grow and develop. Public education takes advantage of this to guide us along a particular path of indoctrination.
Like this:
"I think the basic mission of the public schools should be a) to encourage and support, not crush, the natural love of learning which all children have, (my initial formulation was "to instill in all students a lifetime passion for learning," but on reflection I realized that everyone is born with this, and that all the schools need to do is NOT crush it, which they too often do) and b) to produce citizens who understand the fundamental principles of a free society, including the obligation of responsible dissent; who understand the historical, political, economic, and societal values, events, and imperatives which have put our country in the position it is in today; who have sufficient skills to have a reasonable range of employment and higher education options available to them on graduation; and who have sufficient training in the seven classical branches of knowledge to be able to participate actively and constructively in what Robert Hutchins called The Great Conversation." |
