From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Nov 13 2004 - 13:03:22 GMT
Arlo:
> I think what I had in mind was a little different, and I'm sorry I did not
> make that clear. One of the biggest problems with the current school
> curriculae is that there is no interrelativity among the courses. Each is
> seen as a discrete "block". This problem leads children to believe that
> history and biology (just to pick two we've been talking about) have
> nothing to say about each other. Untrue. And it makes for a boring, if not
> misleading, approach to learning. Many charter schools are developing and
> using an intergrated curriculum. This is something I have looooong been a
> proponent of.
I agree. The problem is and will always be: on what basis will we teach
the kiddies good from bad, right from wrong, true from false? In other
words, how do we insert morality into the curriculum in a way that won't
raise irreconcilable differences? Would the MOQ be acceptable as the lens
through which all subjects are to be viewed?
Platt
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