The Nightmare that is the Present - actual title

1. Miseducation of the American Public -
Think of public education as a reconstruction of self and society. Take all of society’s ills, put them together, and this is the state of public education.

Teaching, from the point of view of the curriculum is a way of enabling students to use what they learn in school to “understand their own self-formation within society and the world” We want their understanding to be both local and global. Academia must recognize that the American public is miseducated. Are we too heavily focused on the business model bottom line? Business leaders want to centralize control of schools. Do schools exist for job preparation or do we have loftier goals? Is there a “cash value” to education.

Discussion: Does the factory model have value in the field of education? Teachers are elevated to the role of managers, students are prepared to enter the work force, etc.

Are teachers educators or technicians “managing” student productivity?