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Ebonics in skoos, foo! (Page 4)
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Originally Posted by nonhuman
No school is meant to teach us. But not just to teach us facts, it's meant to teach us how to engage the world and think critically. The only way to do that effectively is to make the students want to learn. If teaching African history will help do that for more students, then they should teach African history.
IMO, that is what school should be about. But in reality, that is not the nature of the American educational system. In my view, the American school system is more about training than education. Which is why an African-American student can graduate from college in this country and receive a "top-notch education" ... but learn nothing about him or herself or anybody that looks like them other than slavery, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. But that's a subject for another post altogether!
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Originally Posted by OAW
IMO, that is what school should be about. But in reality, that is not the nature of the American educational system. In my view, the American school system is more about training than education. Which is why an African-American student can graduate from college in this country and receive a "top-notch education" ... but learn nothing about him or herself or anybody that looks like them other than slavery, Martin Luther King, and Harriet Tubman. But that's a subject for another post altogether!
OAW
Right, but we're talking about reforming education aren't we?
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