Such an important issue. Not easy. "Public Education" can't really altogether compensate for family background. I had the complete Shakespeare in my barely big-enough lap playing the "can you find what they're saying on TV? Isn't this fun?" game when primitive PBS was showing "The Age of Kings." (Isn't it astounding, I remember the title…
Such an important issue. Not easy. "Public Education" can't really altogether compensate for family background. I had the complete Shakespeare in my barely big-enough lap playing the "can you find what they're saying on TV? Isn't this fun?" game when primitive PBS was showing "The Age of Kings." (Isn't it astounding, I remember the title of the series, that was the positive intensity!) We got National Geographic, etc., and stacks of the Time-Life educational picture books were under the coffee tables. My parents called it :"The Hidden Curriculum of the Middle-class Home." Both teachers. Learning needs to be valued in the broader culture; i.e. recognition of upward mobility aspirations. There is almost a glorification of the opposite in the Zeitgeist, and I humbly submit it may be a negative self-reinforcing spiral fueled by frustration of hope, dare I reference Aesop, the fox who justifies failure..... I happen to be reading a novel, the most charming aspect of which, (to me) is a venerable VW camper named "Rocinante." Like the worldwide masses referenced in "Ship of Fools," who do not know what a "curve ball on the inside corner" is, how many, educated enough to commence this book, ("A Darker Place," Laurie R. King) yet never heard of "Rocinante?" Easy to Google, I assume, but curiosity is needed. We are inundated with information at our fingertips, yet seek narrow indoctrination. Is that a reaction to overwhelm?
Such an important issue. Not easy. "Public Education" can't really altogether compensate for family background. I had the complete Shakespeare in my barely big-enough lap playing the "can you find what they're saying on TV? Isn't this fun?" game when primitive PBS was showing "The Age of Kings." (Isn't it astounding, I remember the title of the series, that was the positive intensity!) We got National Geographic, etc., and stacks of the Time-Life educational picture books were under the coffee tables. My parents called it :"The Hidden Curriculum of the Middle-class Home." Both teachers. Learning needs to be valued in the broader culture; i.e. recognition of upward mobility aspirations. There is almost a glorification of the opposite in the Zeitgeist, and I humbly submit it may be a negative self-reinforcing spiral fueled by frustration of hope, dare I reference Aesop, the fox who justifies failure..... I happen to be reading a novel, the most charming aspect of which, (to me) is a venerable VW camper named "Rocinante." Like the worldwide masses referenced in "Ship of Fools," who do not know what a "curve ball on the inside corner" is, how many, educated enough to commence this book, ("A Darker Place," Laurie R. King) yet never heard of "Rocinante?" Easy to Google, I assume, but curiosity is needed. We are inundated with information at our fingertips, yet seek narrow indoctrination. Is that a reaction to overwhelm?