NP Dialects in Education (was SLSL language)

[Malignd]

Whatever he's calling himself these days quoting
Dewey:

<<Responsibility for selecting objective conditions
carries with it, then, the responsibility for
understanding the needs and capacities of the
individuals who are learning at a given time. It is
not enough that certain materials and methods have
proved effective with other individuals at other
times.>>

This shouldn't be understood, except in error, as a
call for new and different for the sake of new and
different.  One recalls the New Math.  

<<There is no such thing as education value in the
abstract. >>

The above one reason that people are taught not merely
to speak, spell, communicate, but to do so according
to a standard, since the context of education for most
is the commercial future--jobs, advancement, higher
education--which adheres to, and requires familiarity
with, a standard.


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