.............."Schools were once thought of as places where a society’s knowledge and experience were passed on to the younger generation. But, about a hundred years ago, Professor John Dewey of Columbia University came up with a very different conception of education — one that has spread through American schools and even influenced education in countries overseas.
John Dewey saw the role of the teacher not as a transmitter of a society’s culture to the young, but as an agent of change — someone strategically placed with an opportunity to condition students to want a different kind of society."..................
The soft underlying theoretical assumption that guides this type of pedagogy is that the behavior of teachers needs to be controlled and made consistent and predictable across different schools and student populations. The more hidden and hard assumption at work here is that teachers cannot be intellectuals, cannot think imaginatively and cannot engage in forms of pedagogy that might enable students to think differently, critically or more imaginatively.
There may be a theme here, but it a parents job to try and get their kids to go for change.
Simple example. So many of the "Greatest Generation" you know, the ones who allowed most of the national debt to get created did not go to college and they raised their kids to want it.
So many catholics raise their kids in a world that is not all catholic, but encourage their kids to seek that change that would make everyone in the world catholic.
We all prey upon the weak minded and try to get them to want what we want. We are programmed to do so.
So I am sorry, I should say just about all parents. They just surely don't think about it that way.
But clearly most American parents could give a flying fuck about their kids...or there is no way they would let the govt run things to turn them into slaves, unless the parents are already slaves and don't realize it.
