10/30/2021
Mastery is also the model that is used in such things as driver ed, martial arts, apprenticeship programs, almost all vocational training programs, and just about every kind of training past academia. My question then is, if public education is suppose to prepare you for the future, why doesn't it use the model of education that your future will use?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
"As Ken Robinson has described, the industrial model of education is a form of social engineering that has created many problems in our world. It assumes that learning can be measured by standardized tests, and that all children will learn at the same rate and in the same manner. This is just not true... Fortunately, alongside the factory model a very different educational paradigm has also co-existed. This is sometimes called learner-centered education, or the mastery model. Maria Montessori‘s schools were set up this way, beginning with the understanding that learning requires creativity, freedom and self-direction, and that the happiness of the child is a sign that education is effective."
Educational Malpractice – The Child Manufacturing Process
https://creativesystemsthinking.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/educational-malpractice-the-child-manufacturing-process/
From John Taylor Gatto, concerning the origins of factory model schooling, and it's true purpose…
"From the beginning, there was purpose behind forced schooling, purpose which had nothing to do with what parents, kids, or communities wanted. Instead, it was forged out of what a highly centralized corporate economy and system of finance bent on internationalizing itself was thought to need; that, and what a strong, centralized political State needed, too.
At first, the primary target was the tradition of independent livelihoods in America. Unless Yankee entrepreneurialism could be put to death, at least among the common population, the immense capital investments that mass production industry required for equipment weren't conceivably justifiable.
Students were to learn to think of themselves as employees competing for the favor of management. Not as Franklin or Edison had once regarded themselves, as self-determined, free agents.
Only by a massive psychological campaign could the menace of overproduction in America be contained. That's what important men and academics called it. The ability of Americans to think as independent producers had to be curtailed."
The Purpose of Forced Schooling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KW8hfO6ysM
