Aug 5, 2021

Article #1 in a Series >>>>> Concise Observations on Existence and Education

Public Education as the Embodiment of the Knowledge and Values to Be Transmitted to Youth

Education represents the knowledge and values that a society passes on to youth.  Prehistorically and historically, peoples have told stories around campfires, practiced seasonal rituals, and marked life passages so as to convey messages pertinent to universe, Earth, and life origins;  the nature of birth and death;  roles according to gender, age, and class;  and key mores as to how to treat people according to those roles, within the family, the general society, the other, the outsider.

In USA 2021, our key institutions for knowledge and values transmission are the family, religious organizations, social and political assemblages, and schools.  Public schools are, should be, and will be the educational institutions that represent our broadest assertion of what we want our youth to know and value.  

If we continue to fail to provide well-identified and properly sequenced knowledge sets and to conduct vigorous discussions as to the human values that we embrace in common, we will continue to provide desultory education that produces a citizenry largely mired in ignorance, with slim prospects for Life in this one earthly sojourn replete with cultural enrichment, civic responsibility, and professional satisfaction.

 

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