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The name comes from the Old English word (sabat), which comes to us through Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. It's origin is "to rest", and is etymologically connected to Sabbath and Sabbatical. It seemed appropriate... given my current time of transition. This blog allows a place for personal reflection, shares my whereabouts and happenings, but most importantly - it is a vehicle for your reactions to my submissions. My hope is that, as a group, we have a running dialog pertaining to those things that really matter.

I promise to read each post, but please know that replies may be sporadic and/or delayed. For my plans in the near-future will frequently have me "out of pocket", or I may just need to escape the day-to-day deluge of electronic ping pong . But feel free to submit a post. We are all traveling together on this journey to understand, called life; and each perspective is important.

Let's keep in touch as we share the journey!

Be well,

Sam

Friday, August 13, 2010

The Purpose of Schooling

Checkout this YouTube recording of Alan Watts' perspective of Western education.  Watts was a British philosopher who died in 1973 - long before the accountability movement in American education.  Wonder what he would say about our current standardized testing regime?

Don't forget... our current educational system was designed after the industrial model of Henry Ford's assembly line.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCoHnGarAFI
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4 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 18, 2010 at 7:21 AM

    I know that if I had it to do over, I would not require my children to succumb to the educational assembly line. In ways they nor I could understand, they continuously told me that fullness of life and their experience of school were incompatible.

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  2. Sam TreadawayAugust 18, 2010 at 7:57 PM

    And my fear is that this "tangible reward" mindset is continued and exacerbated by the professional and economic cultures as well.

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  3. UnknownAugust 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM

    Yes - and is sadly much of the reason school is "designed" the way it is.

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  4. Sam TreadawayAugust 26, 2010 at 8:58 AM

    My fears increase, now that North Carolina is one of the "Race to the Top" states. Is it just me, or does the name of this federal program seem to align perfectly with the YouTube analogy?

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