#2 Un acto de guerra

ContinuumST — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 19:40:56 +0000

#1 Pues... la frase la encontré aquí: "If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war." — Nobel Prizewinner Glenn T. Seaborg

In the first paragraph of this article, I asserted that education could reshape itself "to provide actual knowledge instead of the symbolic representation of knowledge." In this section I will provide the meaning behind these words.

Modern education could serve to clarify the difference between symbol and thing, except that much of modern education depends on just that confusion — you aren't in school to acquire knowledge, you are there to get a degree. And mistaking a degree holder for an educated person is possibly the commonest confusion of symbol and thing in modern times . Do you need proof? Okay — Dan Quayle not only went to college, he graduated .

The true goal of modern education, stripped of all pretense, is to provide a reasonable outward appearance of scholarship — this is an easy task, it can be done on a small budget, and virtually anyone can be shaped to fit into the costume. As a result, we have "educated" people who know there are three branches to the American system of government, but can't explain why. We have "educated" people who know what inflation is, but can't explain what causes it (more on this below). "

arachnoid.com/lutusp/symbols.html

Y realmente no la comprobé confiando en Paul Lutus y su exquisito pensamiento y textos... pero...

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#1 Un acto de guerra

freelancer — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 13:46:59 +0000

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.
Porque la diferencia está en los detalles
(www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html)

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