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The predictable journey of outcomes based education : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 9/10/2006Welcome to outcomes based education - a slow plod to a destiny already prescribed by someone at a distance from the class.
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If it were possible to begin one's education with a certain attitude of mind (no brainwashing) - then the process of learning would also become the gathering of wisdom. That is always a personal journey and quite beyond the scope of the gatekeepers who measure progress with yardstick and compass.
To me, it's a case of heading off into the trackless bush. It's no good if we are given a bitumen highway. The point has been missed and the beauty will never be appreciated.
With a basic grounding in English comprehension, math and ethics, a child will make his/her own way through the bush. These things are akin to warm socks, stout boots and a nutricious lunch. Never give them a map and compass, or they will all arrive in Sydney.
Being an old miner, I appreciate the metaphor of the alchemist. The alchemists knew that the effort to produce gold required a transmutation of the self. Isaac Newton was an inverterate alchemist. He produced no gold, but his personal transmutation shines as a beacon for us all.
In a way, our education system has lost it's faith in our children's latent abilities.