Onda aningar – uppdaterad

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Editor

Groteskt om pojkar i skolan av David Brooks i DN idag. De skulle gynnas av militära dygder och konkurrensmentalitet. Bristvaror i samhället?

— Sven-Eric Liedman (@svenericliedman) July 10, 2012

Artikeln finns inte på nätet, men jag anar att diskussionen kommer att spilla över på rekryteringsarbetet av män till förskolan.

Uppdaterad

Jag hittar den här texten från NYT:

Interesting thoughts on diversity in the classroom by David Brooks (who seems to have suspended his Twitter account). http://t.co/7NByXQhC

— stefanstern (@stefanstern) July 6, 2012

Schools have to engage people as they are. That requires leaders who insist on more cultural diversity in school: not just teachers who celebrate cooperation, but other teachers who celebrate competition; not just teachers who honor environmental virtues, but teachers who honor military virtues; not just curriculums that teach how to share, but curriculums that teach how to win and how to lose; not just programs that work like friendship circles, but programs that work like boot camp.

The basic problem is that schools praise diversity but have become culturally homogeneous. The education world has become a distinct subculture, with a distinct ethos and attracting a distinct sort of employee. Students who don’t fit the ethos get left out.

Brooks igen – om barns möjligheter i USA

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Editor

https://twitter.com/emilybazelon/status/222675398016761857

Affluent, intelligent people are now more likely to marry other energetic, intelligent people. They raise energetic, intelligent kids in self-segregated, cultural ghettoes where they know little about and have less influence upon people who do not share their blessings.

The political system directs more money to health care for the elderly while spending on child welfare slides.

Equal opportunity, once core to the nation’s identity, is now a tertiary concern. If America really wants to change that, if the country wants to take advantage of all its human capital rather than just the most privileged two-thirds of it, then people are going to have to make some pretty uncomfortable decisions.

Slutsatsen är dramatisk:

Political candidates will have to spend less time trying to exploit class divisions and more time trying to remedy them — less time calling their opponents out of touch elitists, and more time coming up with agendas that comprehensively address the problem. It’s politically tough to do that, but the alternative is national suicide.