Re: Education and Presidential Candidates

[Myron Tribus <mtribus@home.com>]

At 7:29 AM +0100 10/6/00, Antun Rehak wrote:
>Using Deming's and Glasser's ideas as a member of experts who help The
>Minister of Education in creating the transformation of Educational System
>of Croatia Republic I define the following Aim , the purpose,:
>
>The education system helps parents to prepare children for the quality life
>in adults making the continually common progress of the Republic Croatia.
>
>The next steps are
>	the flow chart of the educational system
>	the vision of the system which we want to be the five years ahead
>	the processes which are necessary to rich the vision
>	be passionate and consistent till the end
>
>What do you think about it?
>					Tony
>antun.rehak@dina.hr

Tony:
I would urge you to help the minister understand that the most 
important aim of the educational system should be:

"To promote joy in learning"

That should be the aim.  There should be a series of goals which will 
be consistent with the aim.  These goals should be directed towards 
first assuring the survival and prosperity of the learner. Secondly 
they should be directed at the good of the society.

For example, a goal might be:

  To prepare the student to be a responsible citizen with the 
capability to sustain himself or herself economically and responsibly 
in the future.

I also would urge you to consult the work of David Langford who has 
done more to develop Dr. Deming's ideas for education than anyone 
else.  You will find expositions of David's work at the DEN web site:

http://deming.ces.clemson.edu/pub/den/deming_tribus.htm

See, for example, the paper on how to integrate the teachings of 
Deming and Feuerstein.

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