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From: pax@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Omni-Americans
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Date: 18 Mar 88 04:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!pax    Mar 17 22:49:00 1988


There has been a discussion about why teachers are so poorly paid
and what is wrong with the schools etc in this notes string.

I think the root of the problem is that while schools are popularly
represented as places of education, their true mission is indoctrination.
That is, just the opposite.  I remember well a vidoeo tape I once
saw on the news of a student crying that she wouldn't be so
individualistic in the future in the course of being punished
for being just that.

The students invariably percieve the hypocracy; I certainly
did.  Consider such things as teacher selection and retention,
textbook selection, and teaching methodology in light of
this deception and suddenly what actually happens in our
schools makes sense.

The solution is simple: do away with the indoctrination--this is 
the exact philosophy of state schools of science and mathematics,
magnet schools and the like, though it is never expressed so clearly.