Truthdig.com

I just discovered this blog via KPFK and I have fallen in love with it. There are multiple columns by various scholars and journalists. I just read an article by Mike Rose, who is faculty at UCLA in the Education department.

He wrote an excellent article titled "Questions that Education Reformers are not asking" and he said something that I have been thinking for days and days and its nice to see someone else publish it: We don't have a culture in America that emphasizes and promotes intellectual thought.

If businesses are going to align themselves with education and school districts, and if our educational system is going to continue to focus on "pumping out good little workers" then these same businesses have a responsibility to change how they advertise and shape entertainment for quick bucks. Advertisements and entertainment which value appearances over substance, material aims over creative thought and critical thinking. All of this B.S. trully shapes young peoples minds and character and this effects adults as well! GRANTED, just watch MTV. Retard central.

Granted, he didn't really mention what other motivations businesses have, such as privatizing education, but I do agree that we have to revamp our reasons for sending kids to school in the first place. What happened to the love of learning, being a unique individual, and thinking critically? The new catch phrase that is smothered all over new reforms is "21st Century Skills", which is mainly aimed at creating people who will do well in a office.

This is a crazy time in our history right now, even though a lot of people are just glazed over mentally.

The 60s are coming back people. And I CANT WAIT.