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saved by4 people, first byClay Burell on 2007-07-07, last bySarah Hanawald on 2008-05-03

• I heard a
  vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign
  the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country
  became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action
  of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers
  who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none
  of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach
  computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of
  leading the world in this literacy.
• In modern society,
  said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by
  their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who
  read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately
  empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they
  don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
• Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make
  reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
• New York State, for
  instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European
  Economic Community nations combined.
• rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century
  Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children"
  in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as
  the vegetables.
• Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the
  influence of mothers on their children.
• Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce,
  alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of
  a poverty in education.