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Re: Saturday, September 1, 2001
Maybe education should be more of a conversation, rather than a one-way street that hasn't been re-paved for the last 500 years. Young people are capable of detecting patterns which have formed since older people have crusted over and can't see them any more. But older people have a larger bag of tricks for solving problems and synthesizing. Education should be a cooperative effort, where young and old are using their complementary abilities to acheive the same goal: Everyone involved learns something. I also think that separating young people into groups by age, then sitting them on the other side of a wide chazm from a smaller group of older people is too bizarre for words, and it fosters the innate ability in kids to be cruel because it's oppressive. I think that I sometimes irritate people because I listen to what their children have to say, instead of telling them to shut up, or trying to "yeah, yeah" them into oblivion. It's a way to see through the crust. This cartoon (Which I got turned onto by geegaw.com) captures education completely.
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