Subject: Creativity, Innovation, and Food

Posted by Zachary Lawrence on 10/17/2010
In Reply To:Creativity, Innovation, and Food Posted by Richard Turnock on 10/17/2010

Message:

People are conditioned to expect too much from schools, to believe that they are effective social laboratories in the visions of Dewey and Mann. Public schools are not given resources to educate students in facts, fundamental skills, and talent development - they are pushed to be social centers, rehabilitative services, and surrogate parents. Educators are being forced to do these latter things (that they do not do well, and should not be expected to do well) at the expense of the former, for which they are actually trained.

From my end, the problem has not been the lack of money, but the abundance of mandates and the folly of central planning and social engineering - the organizational system is not deprived of resources so much as it is overburdened with components and expected outcomes, leading to such complexity as to suffer from utter inertia when faced with the need for change.

Zachary

Follow Ups:

Creativity, Innovation, and Food - Chad Green 10/20/2010 
Creativity, Innovation, and Food - Bill Braun 10/20/2010
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