Resume af irsk bog om moderne
skoleundervisning
RESUME AF "EDUCATION OR
MANIPULATION: PART I - A NEW CONCEPT OF EDUCATION
by IRISH EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
The greatest changes in our own
educational system are in the area of what is now known as "health
education" - a term we shall have
cause to define more exactly, later. Health education, modern style,
is intended to embrace every child, at every stage of development and
to become a key factor in the teaching of every subject taught in
every school in the country. It is therefore, destined to exercise a
powerful influence over our children and young people, and over our
whole culture and society, in the years immediately ahead...
The introduction to teachers of the
Cork Social and Health Education Programme describes it's
methods as "The Experimental
Learning Method". This means that the child is to learn by his
own
experience, which is "self-discovered
experience"...
The new method is said to be superior,
because the traditional teaching methods used through the
centuries up until now, reason and
understanding were to be developed, and were to be in control of
the pupils' feelings and emotions. But
it is said to be "authoritarian", and is now supposed to be
done away with...
But should children never be taught to
sing in tune, to use the voice properly - og to avoid stuffing
junk food in between meals, and to
choose a healthy diet? Would this be "authoritarian", and
restrict
their "whole person"
development? ... Perhaps the health educators would like to use their
"democratic" principles to
teach road safety? Would a close physical encounter with the
underside
of a bus be a "valuable learning
experience"? Are we, perhaps, stifling a child's creativity by
absolutely forbidding him to play in
the roadway, until he is old enough to recognize and avoid its
dangers?
Videre får vi at vide, hvem, der står
bag "programmet", "Dr. Brock Chisholm, the
first director of the World Health Organization, and also President
of the World Federation for Mental Health." (Spydpigen: Ja tak, ham kender vi !)
Han siger:: ...The concept of right and
wrong is a barrier to developing a civilized way of life. This
concept of right and wrong should be
eradicated. Children have to be freed from... prejudices forced
upon them by religious authorities...
Parents are dictators and suppressors of the child's better
nature... Sex education should be
introduced eliminating "the ways of the elders", by force
if
necessary...
Systemet går ud på:
1. One World government. - A system of
world law and order based on transnational federal government, - a
Global One World Order...
2. A world-wide system of television
and radio must govern information and education.
3. The central task for mankind is the
quest for the good life.
4. Civil liberties must include the
right to euthanasia, suicide, birth-control and abortion - with no
age-limits given.
5. Moral education of children and
adults is an important way of developing awareness and sexual
maturity, and the many varieties of
sexual exploration should not in themselves be considered evil...
6. Conceptions of "Right" and
"wrong" are to depend on the feelings of a person in any
given situation, since ethics are autonomous and situational.
7. A democratic society - where any
contrary forces can be eradicated! ... We are committed to an
open and democratic society...The
Conditions of work, education. devotion and play should
be humanized... and alienating forces
should be modified or eradicated...
Udgiverne af pjecen konkluderer derfor
om systemet::
1. There is no higher authority than
man himself - because there is said to be no God to whom we
must give account... man is a law to
himself, both individually and collectively.
2. Every person is born good - so that
any evil tendencies ... are blamed on the bad influence of
society, and especially of parents...
3. Human potential is unlimited...
Videre i pjecen:
The experimental learning method"
aims at "stimulating the individual to clarify and define his
own
attitudes, values, behaviour and needs,
and then to plan the changes, if any, he wishes to make.
Lærerne undervises i grupper, hvor de
opmuntres til at fortælle ALT om sig selv (som i Maos Kina!). Det
kan så senere bruges imod dem! De må ikke fortælle børn, hvad der
er rigtigt eller forkert. Børnene skal selv finde ud af - ved deres
erfaringer - hvad der er rigtigt og forkert for deres vedkommende!
Udgiverne af pjecen konkluderer derfor
videre:
Because most of our teachers have
themselves had a relatively stable moral upbringing, the changes
in their outlook may not always lead to
obvious moral failures in their own life-styles. This, in turn,
may blind them to the fact that if the
children they teach are denied the sort of early training they
themselves have had, these may become a
thorougly lawless, immoral, confused, or violent
generation. Parents and others may find
it hard to believe that such "nice" and "sincere"
teachers
could be using methods that could be so
wrong...
They may not intend it, but once this
humanistic, non-moral training gets moving (not least in the
field of sex-education) increasingly
disastrous results will appear. The evidence is clear for all to see,
if we take the trouble to look at other parts of the world where
these same methods have been used for a number of years (for eks.
USA. Eva) - Crime, violence, promiscuity, teen-age pregnancies, and
sexually transmitted disease (including AIDS), have spiralled the
longer these methods have beenused...
Og videre:
Group pressure: Very few (of the
teachers, Eva), if any, will explore alternatives for themselves -
and the result will be - as our humanistic "health educators"
desire - a society of people who are
"conditioned," "cloned,"
or "brainwashed" into humanistic thinking...
And the children will be very much at
the mercy of whatever mental and emotional pressure may
come from their group... They will just
be quietly carried along with the tide, like a swimmer enjoying the
sunshine, unaware that he is being silently carried out sea... What
is considered "right" will no longer even be a matter of
what "I" think is right - but of what "they" (the
group) think. "Right" and "Wrong" will by now
have become purely a matter of the majority's opinion - and will bear
no relationship whatever to either Christian or other previously
accepted standards.
Forfatterne siger videre:
The educational wisdom of civilized
nations, accumulated through centuries of experience, is being
thrown away overnight in favour of
ideas that are based on a cheap pop-psychology! ...
The man whose name is most prominently
associated with these revolutionary ideas is psychologist
Carl Rogers. He was largely responsible
for bringing these ideas into practice in America, following
the earlier lead of John Dewey (and
others).
Carl Rogers, especially, introduced
"encounter groups," "group dynamics" and
"sensitivity training"
into education. (Other names for these
techniques, originally used in psychotherapu, include "human
relations training," "body awareness," and "human
potential and development training").
However: In his revised edition of
"Freedom to Learn" (published as early as in 1983), Carl
Rogers
added a 25 page chapter detailing the
results obtained in schools and colleges where his methods
had been introduced. This chapter is
entitled "A pattern of Failure." A close colleague Abraham
Maslow was so devastated by the results
of his own efforts, that he devoted the last years of his life
to desperately trying to turn the clock
back, and reverse the trend he had helped to start...
Unfortunately, psychologists and
health-educators have come no nearer the mark here, than in the
earlier stages of their
experimentation. The search for "other powers" has led to
"guided imagery",
which in turn leads on to mystical
experiences, relaxation techiques that lead to trance-like states:
yoga, and meditation techniques, forms
of self-hypnosis, and so on - all of which belong to the realm of the
metaphysical and the occult, rather than to that of education...
Pjecen konkluderer:
When self's resources are found to be
bankrupt, it seems that humanistic man will look for help in
any direction - except to God who made
us, and Who alone knows how we were meant to work!
