From: Matt poot (mattpoot@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 06:21:27 GMT
to continue my subject of post, in a completely different part. I missed
this previous post, which is why im replying now (I apologize).
--Hi
Hard to get philosophically sophisticated without reading philosophy.
And what is read in schools is a public not private matter.
Do you advocate philosophy in schools or not?
I take 'as many types of books' as implying yes.
I would prefer that we were more ambitious in schools
and did more hard books and also science and the philosophy of science.
DM
-=*PO0T*=- DId you recently come from the schooling 'system' Dave? Having
recently graduated from highschool a year ago, after 14 years in public
education system(i did go to catholic school up until gr.2), I could not
agree with you more wholly.
I will explain with my own experiences:
(from ontario). I have found that I was not challenged nearly enough. In
the first 6 grades, what do they teach here? long division and
multiplication tables? basic geography? some SUPER basic french? Not to
rush childhood, but this is a point in life where the human brain can absorb
incredible amounts of knowledge, and really mentally develop themselves,
building a foundation. My belief is that these years of just cruising
through school with straight a+ grades. Grades dont even matter.....I just
knew so much more than they were teaching me. And what do they do with the
fountain of attention kids can give when their interested ? Well, they
decided to ....well, I dont know what they decided to do, but it sure as
hell didn't benefit me.
Then, after thoroughly boring me to death with the same, mundane FACTS, year
after year , after year, what is left? I skipped a lot (i mean alot[as Im
sure many of you can understand]) of my final 2 years of highschool, because
, well what they teach, and the way they teach it is just one thing, and one
thing only (no duality here) ----stupid!
When I look at the life of persons such as Pirsig, and even some of those
else I encounter personally, it leaves me feeling...well....it leaves me
feeling sort of inferior(the word[as usual] isnt exactly what I mean). Not
just the fact that he was in university when 14, but just the richness of
experience. And what scares me, is in comparison to him, I have lived a
life less rich of experience, and I have a lot more compared with those my
age around me.
Anyways, I should stop rambling
Poot, Sincerely
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