Monday, September 19, 2005
Confections of Apartheid
The promulgation of new and expanded inventories of "what works," no matter the enthusiasm with which they're elaborated, is not going to change this. The use of hortatory slogans chanted by the students in our segregated schools is not going to change this. Desperate historical revisionism that romanticizes the segregation of an older order (this is a common theme of many separatists today) is not going to change this. Skinnerian instructional approaches, which decapitate a child's capability for critical reflection, are not going to change this. Posters about "global competition" will certainly not change this. Turning six-year-olds into examination soldiers and denying eight-year-olds their time for play at recess will not change this.
--from Still Separate, Still Unequal by Jonathan Kozol
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.htm
--from Still Separate, Still Unequal by Jonathan Kozol
http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2005/American-Apartheid-Education1sep05.htm
