Dr. Shirley McCune-speaking at the 1989 National Governors’ Conference
August 26, 2012
Dr. Shirley McCune describes her vision of an ideal education system in this 1989 speech. The government would anticipate the future, completely transform education, and train children to become good “human resources” ready for that future. This would be done, not by teaching facts and information, but by providing psychological and self-esteem services, career development, and information-processing skills. In her ideal society, the government schools would become the center hub of society.
Dr. Shirley McCune’s speech reveals what the world-view of the education elite was in 1989. Four years after this speech, the education “reform” she helped develop was enacted in Washington State and, a year later, throughout the nation.
If you start to believe Dr. McCune’s futuristic rhetoric, just observe where we are with respect to education today, twenty-three years after this speech. The graduates of public school today are generally uninformed, unaware of our nations history and heritage, and unable to calculate, spell, punctuate, or write coherently. I venture to say that sadly, this transformation of society worked.
Tags: School-to-Work, reform
Dr. Shirley McCune describes her vision of an ideal education system in this 1989 speech. The government would anticipate the future, completely transform education, and train children to become good “human resources” ready for that future. This would be done, not by teaching facts and information, but by providing psychological and self-esteem services, career development, and information-processing skills. In her ideal society, the government schools would become the center hub of society.
Dr. Shirley McCune’s speech reveals what the world-view of the education elite was in 1989. Four years after this speech, the education “reform” she helped develop was enacted in Washington State and, a year later, throughout the nation.
If you start to believe Dr. McCune’s futuristic rhetoric, just observe where we are with respect to education today, twenty-three years after this speech. The graduates of public school today are generally uninformed, unaware of our nations history and heritage, and unable to calculate, spell, punctuate, or write coherently. I venture to say that sadly, this transformation of society worked.
Tags: School-to-Work, reform