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By Phil Cullen, published 14/10/2010

Australia’s new hard-nosed education system emphasises failure and fear.

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"It’s important that we ensure that new national standards for teaching and school leadership address the inner person, and that standards aren’t reduced to standardisation, says David Loader."

Touché!
Posted by Houellebecq, Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:04:25 AM
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The main object of institutionalised schooling is standardisation. It's a factory and it is designed to turn out the standardised article to fit a standardised occupation in a standardised society.
It is such an overarching edifice that in many cases, parents feel that they have nothing they can offer education-wise to their children. They feel "unqualified" and believe that education is something that only happens at school.
I'm a home educator, and this allows us an incredible amount of freedom - and an opportunity (with a bit of guidance) for my son to develop the ability to "think for himself".
Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:22:24 AM
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Gaj,
How the world works is that if you continuously import everything, then eventually there is not enough money left to fund the education system, so that people such as David Loader can come up with their meaningless statements.

To actually produce something, the person would have to understand basic mathematics, something I think many teachers do not understand. Particulary when their pay packets are not directly attached to the trade deficit or student marks.
Posted by vanna, Thursday, 14 October 2010 11:30:28 AM
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Perhaps if we told the kids the truth, that the tests were actually testing the teacher, & meant it, the kids may find the tests less ---well---testing.

Perhaps if we got rid of teachers who continually failed to teach their students anything, the kids may learn more.

Perhaps if we went back to starting trade training, in most trades at the end of junior high, [when the kids all ready have had enough of "schooling"] the kids may do better.

Perhaps if we had more in school apprenticeships, & technical courses many of these kids would do better. Oh, may be not, that would probably be considered disadvantaging girls.

Perhaps if guidance officers, & teachers stressed that you need the 3Rs if you want earn enough to have all the stuff, like plasmas, DVDs & nice cars etc, the kids would do better.

Perhaps if those like GAL realised that kids have to read, write, & add before you can change them with much more than pinching cars, the kids would do better.

Perhaps if we made it illegal to employ teachers in any policy positions in education departments, the kids would do better.

Perhaps if those policy positions were honorary positions reserved for successful business people, [like those who will be employing the graduates] the kids would do better.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 14 October 2010 3:53:20 PM
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This author has some very interesting and challenging things to say about what happens in schools.

http://www.alfiekohn.org/gandhdvd.htm
Posted by Ho Hum, Thursday, 14 October 2010 4:41:37 PM
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Didn't arithmatic go out the door when calculators came in.
I was taught logarithms and square roots, when i left school that was the end of that. Spent the last 38 years in the building trade. Still aint used a logarithm.
There needs to be teaching of life and Australian history, and that includes hoonism.
Who wants to know how many nights sat around a round table.
More realism in the class room is needed. Teach kids to be human beans.
The basics are missing in favour of things that do not relate to life.

I am in favour of the ant colony, you are asoldier, you are a worker, you are useless. and educate them accordingly.. Tee time.
Posted by 579, Thursday, 14 October 2010 5:01:13 PM
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