I have not even finished reading this article, but I have to stop and wonder at these bits. It is taken from an article on Wishtank.com, "From Schools to Learning Communities: A Historic Shift" by Dr. Ron Miller.
"During the past 25 years, education has become ever more standardized, ever more mechanical, as it serves a political and economic agenda of competition, production and corporate profit. Young people in the present system are not perceived as growing, active human beings who seek meaning and connection to the world, but as units of production whose academic achievements contain primarily economic value. The age of modernity has reached its zenith, so that now even first graders — six year old children — are rigorously tested to ensure that they fit into the system, while those who resist mechanistic discipline are sedated with powerful drugs."
http://www.wishtank.org/magazine/commons/from_schools_to_learning_communities_a_historic_shift/
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