AGAINST GROUP MIND: AN ANARCHISTIC THEORY OF EDUCATION
Abstract
Public education deals with a collectivity of children on behalf of a collectivity of adults, and inevitably results, no matter its professed aspirations about the individual, in the care and feeding of group mind. (Wherever grades are given for the way one thinks, it follows.) That is what this article is against. Admittedly, as the note at the end of it suggests, it was originally conceived as a one-sided advocacy matched against two other sides for the sake of an argument at a conference. But Greenfield's tongue is not really in his cheek. Because his points are seriously made, it seems entirely right to start off a journal about education, a word which too often is presumed to refer exclusively to public schooling, with a writer who takes dead aim against that schooling's most salient feature. RÉSUMÉ L'enseignement public s'occupe d'une collectivité d'enfants au nom d'une collectivité d'adultes, ce qui se traduit inévitablement, quelles que soient les aspirations professées sur l'individu, par l'entretien et l'alimentation de l'esprit de groupe. (Chaque fois que l'on note la façon de penser d'un individu par exemple). Voilà ce contre quoi s'élève l'auteur de cet article. Il faut convenir, comme le donne à entendre la remarque de la fin, que cet article a été conçu à l'origine comme un plaidoyer unilatéral prononcé face à deux adversaires dans le cadre d'une conférence. Mais Greenfield ne màche pas ses mots. Dans la mesure où ses arguments sont solides, il semble justifié de commencer une revue sur l'éducation, vocable que l'on croit trop souvent s'appliquer presque exclusivement à la scolarisation publique, avec un auteur qui attaque avec virulence l'un des traits saillants de ce système.Downloads
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1982-01-01
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Greenfield, T. B. (1982). AGAINST GROUP MIND: AN ANARCHISTIC THEORY OF EDUCATION. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 17(001). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7436
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