Foolsworth
09-25-2008, 09:21 AM
Or the Summerhill School which is a teaching philosophy still in
operation today that Advocates personal freedon for children.
Bill Ayers { Friend and confidant of Obama } FIRST teaching job
utilized this approach for the schooling of kids,at the Children's
Community School,a preschool with a very small enrollment operating
in a church basement.
Summerhill Schools founder,Alexander Sutherland Neill,believed that the happiness
of a child should be the paramount consideration in decisions about a child's
upbringing.Feeling that happiness from a personal sense of freedom will develop.
And that deprivation of this sense of freedom during childhood and the consequent
unhappiness experienced by the repressed child,was responsible for many of
the psychological disorders of adulthood.
Such notions as how best to produce obedient soldiers who would uncritically
follow orders into battle,was the traditional mode of schooling ,in direct
contrast to Summerhill where children acheive self-determination and
encourage critical thinking rather than blind obedience.
Some of Neill's ideas are widely accepted today,but other more traditional
thinking within the educational establishment,regard Neill's ideas as threatening
the existing social order.
Notes from Neill that he eventually had published describing himself as " just
enough of a Nietzschian to protest against teaching children to be meek
and lowly but rather trying to form minds that question and destroy and rebuild. "
Very scarey thought.I guess now,we know what Ayers and Obama were up
to when Ayers choose Obama to help coordinate and fund one of his undercover
foundations,that teach kids exactly that kinda thing.To be little Anarchist in waiting.
operation today that Advocates personal freedon for children.
Bill Ayers { Friend and confidant of Obama } FIRST teaching job
utilized this approach for the schooling of kids,at the Children's
Community School,a preschool with a very small enrollment operating
in a church basement.
Summerhill Schools founder,Alexander Sutherland Neill,believed that the happiness
of a child should be the paramount consideration in decisions about a child's
upbringing.Feeling that happiness from a personal sense of freedom will develop.
And that deprivation of this sense of freedom during childhood and the consequent
unhappiness experienced by the repressed child,was responsible for many of
the psychological disorders of adulthood.
Such notions as how best to produce obedient soldiers who would uncritically
follow orders into battle,was the traditional mode of schooling ,in direct
contrast to Summerhill where children acheive self-determination and
encourage critical thinking rather than blind obedience.
Some of Neill's ideas are widely accepted today,but other more traditional
thinking within the educational establishment,regard Neill's ideas as threatening
the existing social order.
Notes from Neill that he eventually had published describing himself as " just
enough of a Nietzschian to protest against teaching children to be meek
and lowly but rather trying to form minds that question and destroy and rebuild. "
Very scarey thought.I guess now,we know what Ayers and Obama were up
to when Ayers choose Obama to help coordinate and fund one of his undercover
foundations,that teach kids exactly that kinda thing.To be little Anarchist in waiting.