I’m sorry for posting this
later than usual but I struggled with it a lot. I knew what I wanted to stay
and what I want you to think about this week but I kept getting the tone wrong.
If I still didn’t get it right please don’t be offended. I tried but sometimes
I’m not the writer I want to me. See, even writing teachers sometimes have
trouble writing. I did tell you before that writing isn’t always easy, didn’t
I?
Unless you’ve been
stranded on a desert island with no one to talk to but a volleyball then I am
sure you have heard about the Occupy movement. Wikipedia gives us an overview but the
essence is that money corrupts politics/government. Whatever you think about
the actually Occupy movement (and I don’t want to get into that debate) I think
we all have to agree about that! But I like this
description of the Occupy movement better: “We have questioned the basic assumptions of our institutions
and our society and found the answers given wanting.”
There is actually an Occupy Education
movement. Some interesting links include:
What are some essential
questions that we should be asking about education?
Obviously we could spend a
lot of time talking about the failings of the education system (K-12 or K-16)
and similarly we could find some of the things that are still being done right,
but most of these things are being done TO you as a student. Obviously when you
are 5 years old there isn’t much you can do (except perhaps go on a crayon
strike and refuse to color in the lines) but now you are adults. What
responsibility are you willing to take for your own education? Can you take
control of your own education? How? Do you want to Occupy Education to force a
change? What changes do you want to see?
No comments:
Post a Comment