Episode 6: Conformity and Compliance
September 17, 2009 | Posted by Administrator Episode 6: Conformity and Compliance
(Introduction to the Hidden Lessons of School)
Critical Thinking Question: Imagine a very small group people trying to exercise power and control over a very large group of people. How dangerous would this situation be for the small group if they lacked the tools to control the thinking of people in the much larger group?
Topic:
Introducing the three aims of public education:
blind obedience, assimilation, and the surrender of self-ownership
The Matrix and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it’s all about?
Bumper Music:
Psychostick “Hokey Pokey”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZZ7ed7vXY
Look Closer:
The Matrix and the Cave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRNMZEDOBrM
John Taylor Gatto: Schooling is not Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKci3_cmlqI
“AGAINST SCHOOL: How public education cripples our kids, and why” By John Taylor Gatto
http://www.spinninglobe.net/againstschool.htm
“Separating School & State: How To Liberate American Families” by Sheldon Richman
http://www.sntp.net/education/school_state_intro.htm
Crossing Education's Rubicon With Horace Mann WAS DEWEY A MARXIST? By William Brooks
http://sixthcolumn.typepad.com/cubedseducationblog/2007/05/education_is_a_.html
http://www.stlawrenceinstitute.org/vol13brk.html
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