Re: Fw: Why not let kids be kids?

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In a message  dated 3/18/2008 10:41:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
monty@fairtest.org  writes:

We're  born "ready" to learn. I hate that "angst" as Jay Featherstone
refers to  it. If that's what it takes to get PreK maybe we should do
without it for a  while longer. Children need safey, nurturing places
with lots of "stuff" to  play with, folks to read to them, sing to
them, dance with them, etc. The  rest is dangerous to their health and
welfare.
Thanks, Deb and Monty.  We talked on this list about exiting agrarian  
thinking.  It's time we discuss moving beyond industrialized thinking...  
functioning less like robots.  When we were studying open vs close culture,  a 
discussion Hall and Mead started a while back, we were not ready to make the  
connection between freedom of religion and freedom.  After the last twenty  years of US 
regression after the fall of USSR, we may want to redefine an equal  
education opportunity and not let standards supporters further continue the  
conformity push in the world.  May be China, cars and coke can tell us  something about 
how we can think differently about education now if we are to  truly have a 
global economy.
 
Quan



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