Much if not most of what passes for school reform is really about public school destruction, corporate takeover, slashing teachers salaries and benefits, and undermining students and citizens ability to question a system that has been concentrating ever more wealth and power into elite hands for more than a generation. It is deeply (and by no means just coincidentally) consistent with the late comedian George Carlins 2005 rant about what the big wealthy business interests that control everything…dont want. They dont want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. By Paul Street, Truthout | Book Review _____________ Peter McLaren, Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy and the Foundations of Education, 6th Edition; (xxi, 259, 261) Today, amidst the most powerful conglomeration of cultural, political, and economic power aver assembled in history…we have seen our humanity swept away like a childs sigh in a tornado…The marble pillars of democracy have crashed around our heads, leaving us ensepulchered in a graveyard of empty dreams… The omnicidal regimes of our Anthropocene Era have brutalized our planet to the point of bringing ecosystems and the energies of evolution and speciation to the point of devastation and Homo Sapiens to the brink of extinction….Time is running out quickly. We are being chased to by the hounds of both heaven and hell with all deliberate speed and we are being continually outflanked.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 07:12:21 +0000
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