31st Dec 2005
The Industrial Educational Complex
Do we have an Industrial Educational Complex? Should we beware the Industrial Educational Complex? It seems it runs far and wide. It impacts every single sector of our society and it brainwashes the minds of our population. No, it probably does so to a lesser degree than the mass media hysteria, but that does not make it okay.
Indeed, I see the problems with trying to bring about social changes in education, as I watched the FTC literally destroy the business “Hooked on Phonics” because the Teacher’s Unions complained. That is a powerful lobby indeed. Also Corporate America needs its armies of employees and they dictate one heck of a lot of policy at all levels of education.
Is there an answer to this dilemma? Is the answer Homeschooling Networks? Well, I am very pro-homeschooling especially when the Homeschooling parents work in a net-centric way. Of course I suppose having gone to public schools; I am at least somewhat a product of that system.
In fact, I believe the problem is getting somewhat out of hand and thus I am writing an eBook on the subject of Homeschooling. One of the hold ups on the Homeschooling eBook is that I am trying to present all sides of this issue. I am finding a heck of time, trying to promote a positive spin on the current educational system. I mean I went thru it and I know first hand how messed up it was and the stories parents tell me today are completely frightful. It is not good enough, and it is unbecoming of the greatest nation ever created in the history of mankind, in my humble opinion.
We need to do something about this travesty, we need to teach kids to think and have self-esteem. We are simply not getting that done with the public school system in most places and rote memorization is not working. Think on this?
L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entrepreneur. Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by Calling-Plans.com Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.
Do we have an Industrial Educational Complex? Should we beware the Industrial Educational Complex? It seems it runs far and wide. It impacts every single sector of our society and it brainwashes the minds of our population. No, it probably does so to a lesser degree than the mass media hysteria, but that does not make it okay.
Indeed, I see the problems with trying to bring about social changes in education, as I watched the FTC literally destroy the business “Hooked on Phonics” because the Teacher’s Unions complained. That is a powerful lobby indeed. Also Corporate America needs its armies of employees and they dictate one heck of a lot of policy at all levels of education.
Is there an answer to this dilemma? Is the answer Homeschooling Networks? Well, I am very pro-homeschooling especially when the Homeschooling parents work in a net-centric way. Of course I suppose having gone to public schools; I am at least somewhat a product of that system.
In fact, I believe the problem is getting somewhat out of hand and thus I am writing an eBook on the subject of Homeschooling. One of the hold ups on the Homeschooling eBook is that I am trying to present all sides of this issue. I am finding a heck of time, trying to promote a positive spin on the current educational system. I mean I went thru it and I know first hand how messed up it was and the stories parents tell me today are completely frightful. It is not good enough, and it is unbecoming of the greatest nation ever created in the history of mankind, in my humble opinion.
We need to do something about this travesty, we need to teach kids to think and have self-esteem. We are simply not getting that done with the public school system in most places and rote memorization is not working. Think on this?
L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entrepreneur. Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by Calling-Plans.com Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.
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