Posts Tagged ‘ education ’

"If the institutionalized educational system is a mass-production factory with the human resource as its product and the employer as its customer, an educational system organized around the agency of the learner will be a lean, demand-pull system. Rather than moving human beings to an assembly line to be processed, it will move knowledge to the point of consumption, when and where it is needed. If young people are alienated from the old mass-production schools, they understand instinctively how to use new networked learning tools for their own autonomous purposes." (03/27/13)

"In self-reports, roughly 55% of college majors say their job and major are 'closely related,' 25% say 'somewhat related,' and 20% say 'not related.' These self-reports probably understate the severity of mismatch; after all, it's embarrassing to admit that you couldn't find a job that uses your skills. In relative terms, though, self-reported mismatch seems meaningful. Robst reports three robust laws of major mismatch. The first two are precisely what you'd expect ..." (03/28/13)

"Government goons are running amok today within the compulsory education classrooms of our United Statists of America. American children and parents are forced by the state to abide by a system of compulsory education in which the kids at school are treated like penitentiary inmates and their parents can do nothing about it. Government violations of human and constitutional rights against school children have become so commonplace that the abuse no longer even seems unusual to the cowed populace." (03/17/13)

"Parental choice is a better way to get students with special needs the services they need, without all the bureaucracy and overhead. Seven states have special needs voucher scholarship programs: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Utah. Four states have special-needs student tax-credit scholarship programs, many of which include students from foster care and military dependents who often have special educational needs: Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia." (09/26/12)

"As the Chicago teacher’s strike carries into its second week, many interesting facts are coming to light. We know the average Chicago public school teacher earns more than $71,000. What makes this figure interesting is that on average, Chicago Public School teachers only scored a 19 on the ACT. That is lower than the national average of 21.1 and the Illinois average of 20.9 .... The question is not why are teachers earning so much, but why are we attracting so many below average individuals in terms of academic aptitude into the classroom and so few high-performing ones?" (09/17/12)

"Imagine you want to leave your current job. You have decided, for whatever reason, that the position is not meeting your needs. Even if leaving might make life hard, and it’s quite possible you will have to endure negative consequences, you are at the point where leaving and getting on with your life is the best choice. Now imagine that your employer says you can’t leave for two years." (03/08/12)

"Fascist dictators weren’t alone in recognizing that controlling the schools meant controlling the minds of the youth. 'Free education for all children in public schools' is one of the demands of the Communist Manifesto; and Karl Marx’s disciples in the former Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, and elsewhere have always abolished private schools in favor of state-run indoctrination centers. It is hardly a coincidence, then, that the public schools of 21st-century America are turning out students thoroughly steeped in environmentalism, socialism, and moral relativism but unable to read their own diplomas." (03/02/12)

"The passage of NCLB is one of the most uneducated decisions ever made by a group of politicians. And that’s saying a lot. The clues that something was very, very wrong were there from the start and you didn’t even have to know the law’s details to figure this out. The very name provided the first clue." (02/23/12)

"Paul advocates abolishing the federal Department of Education; however, Kays says 'that is not the right way to solve education problems.' But once the concept of 'education' is properly defined, abolishing FedEd is the only way to solve education problems. Government, by definition, doesn't 'educate.'" (02/09/12)

"Modern education is built upon a foundation set forth by tyrants. What is most disquieting about the public education mindset is that those who believe most strongly in it are convinced that there are no other suitable alternatives to the compulsory schooling provided via the public domain. The egalitarian core belief of these public education proponents is that society is responsible for obtaining, maintaining, and paying for the process of equally developing young minds." (01/31/12)