Monday, January 23, 2006

the Educators

"The aim of education is to help people learn how to understand, control and, ultimately, change their environment. But the education system in this, and other advanced industrial societies, is geared to precisely the opposite end: i.e. pupils are thaught that the world is extremely difficult to understand; that only a privileged few can reach such an understanding; that these few have the right to control the activities of all the rest; and that, far from trying to change their environment, the vast majority of people should try and fit happily with the situation as it is." ALBERT HUNT