Reaction to Anti-Education System Column
Reading the Journal-Sentinel and having three different blurbs talking about you is kinda cool - it’s like an interactive newspaper! I’m the most popular term in today’s Editorial Section. Let’s look at the comments:
“Kenitz’s column sent a clear message that vast changes need to happen within the education system if we want our children to be successful. Now, the system is stuck in the 19th and early- to mid-20th centuries, preparing our kids for a life in factories that no longer exist.”
-Aaron Robertson
Yeah, that Aaron Robertson. At least he thinks outside society’s twisted mold for education which some readers have told me simply evolved out of Prussian “discipline” from the 19th Century. Many people take “the way things are at schools” as sacred. I’m not saying stop education - I’m saying stop schools. Next comment:
“It is, as he pointed out in his Aug. 12 column, very important not to impede the natural curiosity of children, but keeping them out of a school where they are exposed to things that can pique that curiosity is madness.”
-Eric Cline, Madison
This is the kind of response that shows the exact lack of critical thinking that the Institution breeds. There are infinite ways to “pique that curiosity” in children. Teaching them how to be passive zombies doesn’t seem like the most appropriate to me, and that’s my criticism. I’m not calling for an end to formal education.
Also, the junior editorial page something or other wrote about me, not addressing me by name, but said that school at least taught him how to distinguish “fact” from “horse manure” referencing a line in my column.
I don’t how to respond to it, because it completely misses the point and, as usual, doesn’t address my original assertation.
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