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And jackasses are what we got.

In Reply to: Carrots and sticks are for jackasses posted by Samuel Day Fassbinder on May 04, 1999 at 16:40:12:

Excellent article. I tout a correllary to his thesis. I involuntarily lunge backward whenever I here someone say they're going to "make learning fun". Is there something wrong with learning that it needs to be "made fun"? I thought learning was a natural, spontaneous process. It was for ME, at least until public school got ahold of me. After that, for 12 years I thought I hated learning. Then one day I realized that all I really hated was learning how to be a slave to state and corporate power.

It's maddening that a newspaper columnist is an educational Einstein compared to our Education policy makers. Its even more maddening to think that it may have nothing to do with intelligence but instead pivots on whose stuffing whose coffers with money and power. In that regard it seems we're forced to waste fine journalism on corporate propaganda abatement instead of in open public debate where it would otherwise serve much higher purposes.

Damn the establishment!

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