Do we value the written word anymore? If you look at the confusing array of symbols on the dashboard of a new car, or on your TV remote, you may begin to wonder...
Do we value the written word anymore? If you look at the confusing array of symbols on the dashboard of a new car, or on your TV remote, you may begin to wonder...
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David, I read Amusing Ourselves to Death a few years ago and was really motivated >Toward Literacy--> by the book. I tried to get the teachers at the high school I was then teaching at to read it as well and implement some of Postman's findings in their own pedagogy. But alas, some people, once they've gone over to the dark side...
I'm discovering the truth that Flannery O'Connor proclaimed when she said that the demon of educationalism is one of those that can only be cast out by prayer and fasting...
Fred
Wow, that's actually quite profound. Where does she say that? After working in a high school in inner city philadelphia for 3 years, and >most of the time< wondering what the hell my students had been taught, and who the hell had done it, for the 9-10 years prior to reaching me, I can affirm the that truth as well, at least within the culture of the inner city. Most education in America _that I've observed_ is a shame. My wife related a phone call that she received this morning from a mother of an aspergers syndrome student who had been placed last year in a learning support classroom, not because she was behind, but because she was so ahead that they couldn't work with her in her regular grade level class. This girl had taught herself to speak Japanese fluently via the internet. So smart the school didn't know what to do other than try to hold her back.. Terrible.
Fiction is a subject with a history and should be taught that way
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