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Andraz Tori — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:59:53 +0000

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Comment on Scenes from the Battleground – a secondary school teacher reveals the horrors of British classrooms by Steven Berrey

Steven Berrey — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:15:27 +0000

“I would suggest that this is how you change things. I am interested in improvement, and the biggest single obstacle to this in most schools is the attitude that it is “negative” to identify what isn’t working.”

I disagree. I believe it is with teachers as it is with pupils. If you continually focus on the negative and ignore the positive there is no movement forward simply demotivation and decay.

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Comment on “The students will not tolerate the teacher having power in the classroom” by Marc Sheffner

Marc Sheffner — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:17:51 +0000

As it is I find myself dealing with people who say “yes, it is exactly how you say, but it will all be solved when the Labour Party loses power”.
I’m not one of those people, nor do I label everything I don’t like “socialist”. I suggest you take your own advice. While accusing me of knee-jerk reactions, you seem to be doing the same yourself. Let’s close this discussion, shall we? It is producing more heat than light.

Comment on “The students will not tolerate the teacher having power in the classroom” by oldandrew

oldandrew — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:09:40 +0000

“I’m not pretending anything. The Nazis called themselves socialists.”

The names totalitarians use for things are not usually taken as reliable. Sorry, but if your ideology makes you redefine things to the point where Nazis are socialists then you should reconsider your ideology, not expect others to also redefine words. I realise this is drifting off topic, but I think there is an issue here in as much there is very little point going into some depth about what is happening in education, only to label everything you don’t like “socialist”. Not least because it leads people to suggest solutions to the problems that won’t solve the actual problems, but will fit a narrow ideological criteria of “not being socialist”. As it is I find myself dealing with people who say “yes, it is exactly how you say, but it will all be solved when the Labour Party loses power”.

Anyway, when I get round to my blog entry about identifying the ideology in education, I’ll make sure I draw it to your attention.

Comment on “The students will not tolerate the teacher having power in the classroom” by sheffner

sheffner — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:33:21 +0000

I’m not pretending anything. The Nazis called themselves socialists. The ideological difference between fascism and socialism is much smaller than most people realize, as shown by the example of the Nazis. Basically they are two sides of the same, statist, coin. But this is straying too far from the point of your original blog entry, and I don’t wish to discuss this further here. I add the quotes below for those who might wish to study more.

As I said I will write about this properly some time.
I look forward to reading it. I have put the Hannah Arendt essay you mention on my “To Read” list.

“The superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism, are the concern of journalists and publicists; the serious student sees in them only one root-idea of a complete conversion of social power into State power.” — Albert Jay Nock

“Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.” — Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, addressing the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, 2-25-56

“The unity of a nation’s spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.” — Adolph Hitler

…statism has the broadest definition with socialism and fascism being variants of statism. A major point of both socialism and fascism has to do with the ownership and control of property. In socialism, property is publicly owned and controlled. In fascism, property is privately owned but controlled by the government. Property owners do not control their own property but have the responsibility for that property. The government has the use of the property without any responsibility.
- from “The New Fascism: Rule by Consensus”, chap 20 in “Capitalism: the unknown ideal”, Ayn Rand