Why? Because education in any epoch in any society objectively does have a goal, even if this goal is not understood by the people of this society. And thus we basically have to answer both questions:
- what is the goal (or conception) of the education right now
- what goal (or conception) of the education we want to be
As regards to the purpose of education, then it is simple = educate population = produce a particular statistics of distribution of people over particular mindsets, skills, etc. This expected statistics is defined by the `concept of the education` (or goal).
The conception of the education that I personally want and propose is as next:
- to produce the participants of the society able to participate in social governance
- to nurture a constructive, creative, methodological culture of cognition, thinking and communication
- to help people realize own unique potential
- to provide methodological mindset so that everybody is able to build own holistic and integral understanding of the society and find own place in this system
The conception of the education that I feel today is as next:
- prevent realization of own unique potential
- produce alienated recipients not able to participate in the social governance
- restrict access to the integral knowledge, so that everybody understand only his particular area and never has chance to build a holistic perspective on the society
- program people to learn not what they are potential of, but what is required for the capitalistic machine of exploitation of humans
- nurture a non-constructive, ego-centric or dogmatic culture of cognition, thinking and communication
explanation: ego-centric culture of thinking is required for an intellectually higher social layer of "managers and engineers", while dogmatic culture is required for a social layer of "hard-workers" who can execute under supervision of "managers"
In the late 19th century, most of Europe began to provide elementary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, partly because politicians believed that education was needed for orderly political behavior. As more people became literate, they realized that most secondary education was only open to those who could afford it. Having created primary education, the major nations had to give further attention to secondary education by the time of World War 1.
As secondary education became in vogue, students were schooled in the needs of the military and industry of the time. To some extent that remains true even today. When the mission statements are read you will find they say something about preparing the student for entry into the work place ... preparing the student for further studies ... finding their place in society ... etc ...
Taken from Wikipedia: Presumably every generation, since the beginning of human existence, somehow passed on its stock of values, traditions, methods and skills to the next generation. The passing on of culture is also known as enculturation and the learning of social values and behaviours is socialization. The systematic provision of learning techniques to most children, such as literacy, has been a development of the last 150 or 200 years, or even last 50 years in some countries.
If accepted then education is the passing of information from one generation to the next.
The problem we face today is that education is no longer a cultural mandate ... In the US it has become a political tool. The Federal Government has usurped the powers once belonging to the states. The remaining powers in education once was given to the local school boards now belongs to the state. Left out of the equation are the educators and the parents. A pity. The Socialization of American Education is all but complete.
Funding / grants all come from the Federal government ... and as we all know he who has the gold rules.
I wish you well
- what is the goal (or conception) of the education right now
- what goal (or conception) of the education we want to be
As regards to the purpose of education, then it is simple = educate population = produce a particular statistics of distribution of people over particular mindsets, skills, etc. This expected statistics is defined by the `concept of the education` (or goal).
The conception of the education that I personally want and propose is as next:
- to produce the participants of the society able to participate in social governance
- to nurture a constructive, creative, methodological culture of cognition, thinking and communication
- to help people realize own unique potential
- to provide methodological mindset so that everybody is able to build own holistic and integral understanding of the society and find own place in this system
The conception of the education that I feel today is as next:
- prevent realization of own unique potential
- produce alienated recipients not able to participate in the social governance
- restrict access to the integral knowledge, so that everybody understand only his particular area and never has chance to build a holistic perspective on the society
- program people to learn not what they are potential of, but what is required for the capitalistic machine of exploitation of humans
- nurture a non-constructive, ego-centric or dogmatic culture of cognition, thinking and communication
explanation: ego-centric culture of thinking is required for an intellectually higher social layer of "managers and engineers", while dogmatic culture is required for a social layer of "hard-workers" who can execute under supervision of "managers"
In the late 19th century, most of Europe began to provide elementary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic, partly because politicians believed that education was needed for orderly political behavior. As more people became literate, they realized that most secondary education was only open to those who could afford it. Having created primary education, the major nations had to give further attention to secondary education by the time of World War 1.
As secondary education became in vogue, students were schooled in the needs of the military and industry of the time. To some extent that remains true even today. When the mission statements are read you will find they say something about preparing the student for entry into the work place ... preparing the student for further studies ... finding their place in society ... etc ...
Taken from Wikipedia: Presumably every generation, since the beginning of human existence, somehow passed on its stock of values, traditions, methods and skills to the next generation. The passing on of culture is also known as enculturation and the learning of social values and behaviours is socialization. The systematic provision of learning techniques to most children, such as literacy, has been a development of the last 150 or 200 years, or even last 50 years in some countries.
If accepted then education is the passing of information from one generation to the next.
The problem we face today is that education is no longer a cultural mandate ... In the US it has become a political tool. The Federal Government has usurped the powers once belonging to the states. The remaining powers in education once was given to the local school boards now belongs to the state. Left out of the equation are the educators and the parents. A pity. The Socialization of American Education is all but complete.
Funding / grants all come from the Federal government ... and as we all know he who has the gold rules.
I wish you well
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