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Old 20-08-2015, 10:11 AM #5
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Originally Posted by Ammi View Post
children are most definitely not taught to be drones but very much encouraged to be themselves and have belief in themselves, whatever their abilities academically...
What you mean is that their strengths are identified and focussed on so that they can eventually go into a job / career that focusses on that strength and therefore be a more efficient cog in the machine. It is intrinsically the purpose of curriculum based education... there's no way around that.

If I am wrong, if it is not what schools are trying to do, then the only alternative is that schools are failing miserably in whatever it is they ARE trying to do, because we live in a nation of drones.
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