Posted on 02/12/2008 8:46:14 AM PST by bs9021
Red Alert On Tolerance
by: Malcolm A. Kline, February 12, 2008
Look out children: academics are now entranced by something called “Teaching Beyond Tolerance.”
Since their emphasis on tolerance netted us about a couple of hundred restrictive speech codes at about as many colleges and universities, who knows what the new fad will yield on American campuses. Shana Agid and Erica Rand give a preview of coming attractions, sort of, in the latest issue of Radical Teacher.
“We wanted to imagine another set of possibilities for educators and students alike, grounded in a different set of assumptions: that so-called ‘hate’ violence is not simply aberrant, individualized, or isolated; that is grounded in structural inequalities of race, class, sexuality, gender, and nationalist imperialism that also contribute to the structure of educational settings; and that the very lack of specificity in many understandings of ‘hate’ and ‘tolerance,’ besides the dubiousness of mere tolerance as a goal,....
Rand has written such tracts as Barbie’s Queer Accessories (1995) and The Ellis Island Snow Globe (2005), both published by the Duke University Press. Radical Teacher, in which her thoughts on tolerance appeared, is “a socialist, feminist and anti-racist journal on the theory and practice of teaching.”
“In an educational model built upon the idea of teaching tolerance, where tolerance is an acceptable, even ideal, endpoint, the trope of witnessing for the purpose of understanding violence or ‘hate’ in a universal humanizing sense, not as a manifestation of structure of power and deprivations, hesitates to meaningfully engage students/viewers/experiencers in their own relationship to those structures,” Agid and Rand explain, in a way. “In other words, you may feel bad for those people, but you are not challenged to find out your actual relationship to that thing or those people you feel badly about.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Forget all the BS and teach the kids how to read and write.
I don't want teachers teaching my kids to write like this.
Sure is a whole lot of words to say absolutely nothing.
It reminds me of something mr. mm came across once, and sadly can't find again.
Someone had made a computer program that was programmed with all the words in the English language and all the rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. and had it place the words in at random according to what part of speech they were. IOW, where ever a verb belonged, it put in a verb, where ever a noun, it put in a noun, all completely at random. They then printed out a paper that was all gibberish. They submitted it to an organization, and it actually placed for an award of some kind.
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't read it myself. And it sounded just like this.
“structural inequalities” Wow...that must DhimmiLib Speak for ‘I want what they got’...
Stop the BS, the posturing, the PC crappola. How ‘bout we just teach the kids to read, write, cypher, and think for themselves? That would be a good start.
People pay to go to school for that?
Sorry about the double post.
I hope these people are not educating the next generation of teachers.
Well I hope that home-schoolers are educating the next generation of teachers and leaders, otherwise we might as well just hang it up now.
Radical feminists can write practically anything touching on their area and be safe. They are tolerated like a crazy aunt in the basement. It is a mistake to ignore them because even ridiculous ideas gain power if they spread unopposed.
“In an educational model built upon the idea of teaching tolerance, where tolerance is an acceptable, even ideal, endpoint, the trope of witnessing for the purpose of understanding violence or ‘hate’ in a universal humanizing sense, not as a manifestation of structure of power and deprivations, hesitates to meaningfully engage students/viewers/experiencers in their own relationship to those structures,”
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Sidenote, we started teaching our three year old to read yesterday. It went well, although bribery with SpongeBob and cajoling with "I'm not sure she's big enough for this yet" was required. She got the concepts immediately when she applied herself (for the few second increments of concentration that pre-schoolers can muster when they are not doing exactly what they want to do) but it's going to be one or two 15 minute sessions a day maximum we think.
“the trope of witnessing”
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Don’t you love that? She lifts Christian terminology, but it’s a trope . . . just a common pattern . . .
I simply do not inderstand this bleating BS.
One wonders how persons possessed of this muddle-headed nonsense manage to dress themselves in the morning. They drive, too. And vote.
Scary, isn’t it?
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools...
- Romans 1:22
What a collection of gibberish.!
This is what happens when you attempt to educate people beyond their intelligence.
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