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[Yu_Bum_suk]

http://www.mncast.com/outSearch/mncPlayer.asp?movieID=10021319320070314173434&player=7

I have almost nothing to do today and was watching old music videos. I watched this one and though shit, nothing in that video seems unfamiliar after a few years of teaching in Korea. Watch it again. It really gives you something to think about.

[pest2]

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[Cheonmunka]

It's all very well and good to have a humanist philosphy and decree the events and masters of the 20th f^%$en Century, but I'd rather have some education going on than none at all. Actually, when I think about it, my childhood was nothing like that depicted in the Wall.
I was never in Roger Waters' head to understand what was really happening in that movie.
The music? Before its time and friggin excellent - wish I could hear top 40 music like that on the radio now.

[cbclark4]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cju4wXYXFz4&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3aIQyL9Mh0&mode=related&search=

these links may be better.

cbc

[mnhnhyouh]

One line struck me when it came out, 1979, IIRC, when I was 15. That was about "dark sarcasm in the classroom".

I remind myself of that often as a teacher, so I dont use it.

h

[trubadour]

We are part of it.

School itself is an important lesson. Sometimes I think that as teachers we must have failed to learn it, since we keep coming back!

The education system as a whole is very important for society, of course. It has many benefits, not least in getting away from ones parents! Though I think one has to agree that it is quite fundamentally flawed in conception (both in the understanding of the nature and potential of humanity and the true value of knowledge) and execution (dependence on objectivity).

It is compromised by an ambiguity at the root of it's modern inception - the twin aims of creating a knowledgeable a work force and instilling social order on the masses. Ideas that encourage 'education' to be used like a blunt instrument of order on a 'mass' of poor, ignorant and idle (and let's face it, the vulnerable) to make them useful (productive) citizens.

There were, perhaps, some noble principles in there, but they got reduced to targets measured by what is useful, and at the same time, what is useful is reduced to the merely mechanical.