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echo: educator
to: MICHAEL MARTINEZ
from: PAUL SAYAN
date: 1996-08-17 09:31:00
subject: Re: Ivan Illich

 
MM>"Installing" the ability to think??  I don't like that word.
 
        Sorry, I tend to leave out words in my thoughts.  It should have
read "installing the ability to think logically, independently, and free
from other influencing and over -riding factors."  Basically, a concept
of freedom in thought.  Not be programmed by dogma, but an induvisual
decision based on what one believes to be factual.  Now, I hope really
don't have a problem with that?
 
MM>All of these things that you mentioned are merely *more schooling*.   Of 
cou
MM>that's the case.  You need to pass through the gradations to get further 
on.
MM>But what about job-wise or career-wise etc?  I haven't seen a difference.
MM>People with only a high school diploma are working the same jobs as
MM>someone without one.
 
I would seriously invite you to search the ERIC files, or the US
Department of Education, Commerce, and came up with some facts to back
that up.  You say, you haven't seen a differnce?  How did you measure
this?
 
Keep your stick on the Ice,
Paul
 
 
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