“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being 'with it', yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.” - Ivan Illich
I'm reading, "Compulsory Mis-education" 1962. He favored Progressive Education and the ideas of John Dewey. John T. Gatto and Charlotte Iserbyt detest progressive ed. and Dewey. Born in 1911, died in 1972 per Wikepedia
Goodman, unfortunately, radically overestimated the mindset of the typical adult american. A simple thought experiment, whereby one imagines a sector of american society dedicated to those individuals who want to pursue Art, science, and any other creative project(s) and NOT at all interested in the pursuit of money--that sector would be strangled by all those pursuing money--as they have done in reality by corruption through co-optation, rendering such culture pursuits trivialized by commodification.
Having an education system in general is wrong. What system ?! I learn differently from you and with a different purpose (of course if we consider the human nature dominant to any other factor). I educate myself better than any other teacher because I know the best what my need is. If I don't know or perhaps I'm suffering from lack of awareness due to a deficiency, then I need to take a therapeutic journey to remove all those blocks to be able to teach myself and my future kids ! It's 21st century and with the vast amount of information present there is no need of an education system (especially school system).
I find it sad that so little is left of this man in our current culture, because in this age of madness we need a little Paul Goodman.
“Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being 'with it', yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.” - Ivan Illich
The documentary about him is how I learned about him. Praise it.
I agree with goodman in some points.
I'm reading, "Compulsory Mis-education" 1962. He favored Progressive Education and the ideas of John Dewey. John T. Gatto and Charlotte Iserbyt detest progressive ed. and Dewey. Born in 1911, died in 1972 per Wikepedia
Goodman, unfortunately, radically overestimated the mindset of the typical adult american. A simple thought experiment, whereby one imagines a sector of american society dedicated to those individuals who want to pursue Art, science, and any other creative project(s) and NOT at all interested in the pursuit of money--that sector would be strangled by all those pursuing money--as they have done in reality by corruption through co-optation, rendering such culture pursuits trivialized by commodification.
Having an education system in general is wrong. What system ?! I learn differently from you and with a different purpose (of course if we consider the human nature dominant to any other factor). I educate myself better than any other teacher because I know the best what my need is. If I don't know or perhaps I'm suffering from lack of awareness due to a deficiency, then I need to take a therapeutic journey to remove all those blocks to be able to teach myself and my future kids ! It's 21st century and with the vast amount of information present there is no need of an education system (especially school system).