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In reply to the discussion: While watching Nova on HS football, IMO it's time to scrap football or change it to a non contact [View all]HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)my comfort zone a bit and makes me think! (Something not to be underestimated in this age of diddling Iphones and mindless XBox vapidity).
I have long said that American higher education is badly in need of some latter-day Martin Luther to come along and tack up a new 95 Theses on the doors of academe. I think in regards to your question that I stand with Henri Giroux and other like-minded leftist education reformers who seek a complete and thorough overhaul of the entire educational apparatus. Without going into a lot of specifics, such leftist critiques of the educational system tend to situate it within a larger sub- and superstructural dialectic, such that most serious leftist proposals to reform American education predicate the proposal upon a simultaneous reform of the economic substructure and various other super-structural outgrowths. (Sorry to lapse into Marxist jargon, but figure this may resonate with you a little, given your screen name.)
Just out of curiosity, are you merely playing Devil's Advocate with your post, or do you have a proposal to handle the stressors caused by the modern American educational system? If so, maybe we should start our own thread and carry on the debate there.
Once again, though, thanks for the question. Very a propos and badly needed asking.