Re: what a week

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

My response.

 > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)
 > Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 06:56:57 -0700
 >
 >  > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 >  > Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 01:41:48 -0700
 >  >
 >  > Besides Margaret, Brian, and Artemis, Cynthia's entourage also sort of 
 >  > (that because he lives in Ca and didn't come /with/ her) included 
 >  > Bann Ray,
 > 
 > I bet his emails get caught by a lot of spam filters...
 > 
 >  > a documentary filmmaker, who is doing a film about the early days 
 >  > of Logo.  So one reason I didn't actually get to very many sessions was 
 >  > that during two of them I was being interviewed about the early days of the 
 >  > MIT Logo Lab, mostly, but also a little about later developments.
 >  > 
 >  > Over breakfast I argued that even though kids need to know stuff, there's 
 >  > no specific thing that /every/ kid needs to know.  She said "What about 
 >  > reading?" but around that point in the conversation we had to get moving to 
 >  > get to the panel.  So when they got to the Q&A part of the session, I took 
 >  > up the argument again, saying "There's no specific thing that every kid 
 >  > needs to learn -- not even reading, Colleen."  I had in mind, and wanted to 
 >  > recount, John Holt's story about the Danish folk school (sort of like what 
 >  > a charter school would be in a progressive country) he visited, at which 
 >  > [snip]
 > 
 > Whenever I mention the concept of non-compulsory education to somebody, I
 > feel like I get my head bit off -- it just seems like so much the opposite
 > direction of today's thinking.
 > 
 > What's weird is that it's people like Peter Thiel who advocate for "no
 > schooling", which, I think, is different than what Paul Goodman had in
 > mind.
 > 
 >  > And it really is Trump's world: My response was to tweet about it.
 > 
 > Oh, no!  Glad I'm not on twitter nor do I read tweets.
 > 
 >  > It's empowerment that drives the reproduction of 
 >  > the class nature of society, more than reading, Colleen and audience.
 > 
 > I always wonder whether empowerment is always paired with self-esteem.
 > Would communities filled with high self-esteem individuals move towards
 > positive change, no matter their economic circumstance?
 > 
 >  > I took my first-ever Lyft ($50) home
 > 
 > Ugh.  The "sharing economy".