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Post: #136

Re: Pro-School Arguments

Trekkie_Aspie Wrote:Would you rather have your child know one thing but know it damn well or mere snippets of lots of things?

Which do you think people do a)on their own or b)at school?

First point. That is the primary debate between liberal arts and specialized education.

On their own, at school point: First, one must understand the two guns of propaganda in this system is public school and western media. Those affected by Western media, as well disillusioned by school conform to the standards of Western media, movies ,games...
Thus there are four scenarios.
1. Conform to school, conform to western media
2. conform to school, ignore western media
3. ignore school, conform to western media
4. ignore school, ignore western media

From my experiences, I have been in the positions of 1,2,4. And to truly live an intellectual life, a life driven by curiosity and passion not intimidation of coercion, 4, is a truly wonder experience.

02-04-2010 08:30 AM