Monday, July 16, 2012

Schools Matter: The New Totalitarianism

Schools Matter: The New Totalitarianism:


The New Totalitarianism

Sara Robinson at AlterNet offers a sobering assessment of our new reality under corporate domination and why public education is intentionally being destroyed along with academic freedom and critical thinking.  Have a good day.
Education: Testing, Not Teaching
My eighth-grade civics teacher used to terrify our class with grim stories about the education endured by our unlucky peers in the USSR. Communist education, she said, was nothing but rote learning -- no discussion, no critical thinking skills, all