1. Education for Work?
Holt wrote: I do not think we can treat as separate the quality of education and the quality of life in general. ... I am saying that truly good education in a bad society is a contradiction in terms. ... Most parents, when they say to schools, "Give my kid a quality education," mean, "Do something to him that will get him ahead of all the other kids." ... They mean, make him a winner in a race where most kids lose... ... I think this creates alienation between the school and learners who don't fit into the social profile of what the school expects a good learner to be. ...
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