Re: Modern Education

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> 1. The core problem is that there are no longer any moral foundations

> in the

> educational system. To be more specific: there is no longer any sense

> of

> right or wrong. One parent asked me " who are you to tell my kid

> what's right

> and what's wrong?

Over here that's grounds for expulsion. I had a teacher who dealt with

such a question accordingly. The day after, when the student entered

the class, he was immediately told to go to his mother's workplace,

since the teacher no longer found he was equipped to dictate what was

right or wrong, he felt he was no longer equipped to educate the child,

so if his mother felt that she alone could dictate such law, then she

should educate the kid herself. The day after the kid was allowed back

because everybody has a right to education that cannot be denied, but

that was the last time that parent was ever seen in the school.

> 2. The disintegration of community identity and the rise of unbridled

> individuality. In other words: no " us " , only " me " .

Has it ever been different though ? Isn't human nature simply

egotistical ?

> 3. Parental interference. A friend of mine did his MA thesis on

> parental

> involvment in schools and found that the two most common reasons were

> protecting their own problematic kids and hoping to cash in on their

> involvement when they run for local office.

Well, something can be said for the opposite as well, which is the case

over here. There is zero parental involvement. Education is fine, but

family life is deteriorating rapidly. There is no more sense of family

as there is in the US.

> 5. Populist politicians and school boards.

Federalize the school system. If everyone is learning the same thing at

the same time, there will be no shortcome in education. I can tell you

from a student-perspective its a bitch to have your entire curriculum

dictated, but I cannot deny the results it has had on the education of

our nation. Plus it would eliminate a lot of the " I feel " type of

involvement. Have a problem ? Talk to the man upstairs. Welcome to

Belgium, the birthplace of bureaucracy.

> O.k. - can we get back to training, my anchor of sanity?

Train the mind as well as the body. I feel as the intellectual beacon

in the bodybuilding and powerlifting landscape, supertraining is an apt

place to discuss matters of intellect and education.

Van Mol

Belgium

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