02-06-2019, 06:04 PM
(02-06-2019, 11:43 AM)Hintergrund Wrote: I agree - the whole "education" sector is in a yuge Crisis, and might implode. Better go to Khan academy and such.
Education at its best is preparation of life. Content matters, of course. I remember seeing billboard ads in Dallas that proclaimed "Dallas Baptist University teaches traditional values". Yes, tradition has its merits, but people who already have traditional values don't need to get further indoctrination. One must learn when to violate traditions, especially of those traditions are tainted. Why not learn something about traditions not one's own, as with the Greco-Roman world? Educated Americans used to know more about antiquity, and people who realize how badly the Romans fouled up have lessons to tell us.
Truth be told, more of most of our lives will be spent in leisure than in toil. If one really messes up in leisure (as with cocaine) one will mess up everything else. People can use their leisure to enrich their lives or transform themselves into numbing bores.
For specific learning, as in how to do mathematics, Khan Academy is good -- really good. Programmed learning is a good way to learn technical studies. Humanistic studies? Not so much.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.