07-17-2009, 12:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-17-2009, 12:48 PM by Herbert Spencer.)
Dennis Ruhl Wrote:http://www.universityforintegrativelearn...orum2.html
I hadn't read this for several years. I enjoy it a lot. I think the guy's amazing.
Before he croaks do you think Peter will write us all a letter detailing his adventures in non-traditional learning?
BTW, I do believe that Mel Suhd is the author of that letter. (It's signed "Mel." He refers to Ray Chasse in the third person.)
But I did enjoy it regardless of who wrote it, particularly this:
Quote:I have no love or respect for accrediting agencies. I think they are a big business fraternity with a vested interest in prescriptive mass education that prepares the nations citizens to serve the needs of those in power.... I believe that even at the highest levels of education, little effort is made to develop the higher levels of learning - analysis, synthesis and assessment/integration. Socratic thinking that could lead to dissent or individuation is dangerous, whereas standardization and fundamentalism are the easiest way to control.
But I will support accreditation over anarchy or laissez-faire systems while I struggle to support a better and more open way to assess the educational process.