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May 18, 2017 · Public school divisions are required by law and expected by society to carry out these purposes as a primary mission. Public education is highly valued by Canadian citizens because they have ...
Jun 29, 2016 · School has nothing to do with freedom. First, there are state laws mandating that you have either attended school or have learned the very specific kinds of things you’d learn in school. That form of education is not a choice: it is legally compulsory. But schooling is culturally compulsory as well. That’s what Austrian philosopher and ...
- Compatibility
- Achievability
- Shared Meaning
- Impact on Practice
There is no guarantee that all the goals on any list can be achieved at the same time. It may be that achieving one purpose will necessarily be at the expense of another. There is only so much time, energy, and resources. If one of our goals is to make students physically fit, the time spent on fitness cannot also be spent on reading, yet goal stat...
It is one thing to write down a goal, and quite another to be able to accomplish it. It is doubtful that schools can achieve all the goals set for them, even if there is agreement on what those goals are. Knowledge about how people learn and about how to teach them is, and always will be, limited. There are many things schools would like to do, but...
A statement of goals is an attempt to generate agreement among many people as to what schools should do. In education, it is common for school members to come together to create a “shared vision,” which also requires agreement on aims and purposes. But, as we have already noted, there may be quite a bit of disagreement among and between parents, st...
It is one thing to espouse a goal and quite another to be able to put that goal into practice. The gap between goals and practices exists because it is difficult to align our behaviour with our ideals. It is much easier to align one’s self with an ideal than it is to put it into practice when it competes with other ideals, some of which appear to c...
- Dawn Wallin, Jon Young, Benjamin Levin
- 2021
Feb 22, 2018 · According to Feinberg, public education is needed “to renew a public by providing the young with the skills, dispositions, and perspectives required to engage with strangers about their shared interests and common fate and to contribute to shaping it” (134).
- John Tillson
- tillsoj@hope.ac.uk
- 2018
to provide universal access to free education. to guarantee equal opportunity for all children. to unify a diverse population. to prepare people for citizenship in a democratic society. to prepare people to become economically self sufficient. to improve social conditions". Built in 1920, Ridgeway Public School was situated at the centre of the ...
Aug 31, 2023 · The philosophical shift public schools have undergone during this same period is visible in education policy and practice: in the explosion of workforce partnerships between local companies and ...
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According to Illich, this right should read: “the state shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.”. And Illich wasn’t alone in advocating against mandatory formal schooling. Seven years later, US teacher, John Holt, founded ‘Growing Without Schooling’, which was America's first home education newsletter.
