@ Tiger
I'm saddened by your bleak outlook on humanity. You're obviously a believer of the "born evil" argument.
School is so much more than a place to regurgitate facts and figures. School is an essential component in developing the necessary
social skills one would later utilize in life. Thus, it important that our learning - knowledge, morality, self-worth - is undertaken
within a model similar to the society which we would be soon venturing into. As to your view that the school is an empty prison
to keep students in... Cheer up buddy - there's more to life than this; you just have to look for it.
@ Tiger & Yue
"what is a committee composed with students without fundamental powers decide? Empty promises and rules?"
"In a real democracy, we would have real power such as dictating which teachers represent us"
Most of your points are well said and with conviction, but they are irrelevant because they only point out the INHERENT problem.
What we need now if SOLVENCY. How do we SOLVE the problem? Thank you for recognizing the unfairness and lack of democracy,
but it would be a logical fallacy to say that BECAUSE there is no democracy, there CAN'T be democracy in the future.
I am saying YES there is NO democracy NOW, and YES, there SHOULD BE democracy in the FUTURE.
@Tiger
"Just as we can vote out a politician, we should be able to vote out a teacher, if it were a representative democracy."
^ YES this is what I'm talking about. This would be too radical a change to implement now, but eventually, democratic education should
be able to a point where this happens. We may not be able to VOTE OUT a teacher directly, but we should be have certain control over
our quality of teachers. FOR EXAMPLE, student EVALUATION of teachers, where part of a BONUS would be proportional to the RATING
teachers give them. In this way we would have a REAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. This may never happen in our time, and certainly
not in a lethargic, conservative nation like Canada, but hopefully it will be taken on by some progressive, forward thinking educational
system.
I'm saddened by your bleak outlook on humanity. You're obviously a believer of the "born evil" argument.
School is so much more than a place to regurgitate facts and figures. School is an essential component in developing the necessary
social skills one would later utilize in life. Thus, it important that our learning - knowledge, morality, self-worth - is undertaken
within a model similar to the society which we would be soon venturing into. As to your view that the school is an empty prison
to keep students in... Cheer up buddy - there's more to life than this; you just have to look for it.
@ Tiger & Yue
"what is a committee composed with students without fundamental powers decide? Empty promises and rules?"
"In a real democracy, we would have real power such as dictating which teachers represent us"
Most of your points are well said and with conviction, but they are irrelevant because they only point out the INHERENT problem.
What we need now if SOLVENCY. How do we SOLVE the problem? Thank you for recognizing the unfairness and lack of democracy,
but it would be a logical fallacy to say that BECAUSE there is no democracy, there CAN'T be democracy in the future.
I am saying YES there is NO democracy NOW, and YES, there SHOULD BE democracy in the FUTURE.
@Tiger
"Just as we can vote out a politician, we should be able to vote out a teacher, if it were a representative democracy."
^ YES this is what I'm talking about. This would be too radical a change to implement now, but eventually, democratic education should
be able to a point where this happens. We may not be able to VOTE OUT a teacher directly, but we should be have certain control over
our quality of teachers. FOR EXAMPLE, student EVALUATION of teachers, where part of a BONUS would be proportional to the RATING
teachers give them. In this way we would have a REAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY. This may never happen in our time, and certainly
not in a lethargic, conservative nation like Canada, but hopefully it will be taken on by some progressive, forward thinking educational
system.
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