Blog Assignment #5: Big Brother Is Watching You
The world is getting mad! All over the world goverments are talking about the threaths of terrorism. Leaders all over the world are talking about more restrictions and more surveillance. But is that democracy? I don´t think so. It´s to give up the freedom that a true democracy stands for! It´s a symptom of fear and I think it just shows how scared we are. I think we surrender to the terorrists, that they have the power to scare the hell out of us, if we keep going on with this security mania.
Personally, I think that we have to change other things in the world to protect us from terrorist attacks. We need to struggle for a more equal society. We can´t go on and live in a society were there are super rich people and super poor. This creates of course a lot of feelings that will get back on to our western lifestyle. In our welthy lifestyle, we use earth resources in an ignorant way. We take for granted things that a lot of people in the world are not even close to. This ignorance are striking back on us in an violent way. Maybe we should be more humble an open up our eays for all the injustice in the world, and see how we have provide and provides to it.
Life is not safe, how bad you want it. In my world this total survielliance hysteria is out of control. I cant se anything good about it.
I.Höjer
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lördag 30 maj 2009
onsdag 6 maj 2009
Grades
From day one, we are valuated as human beings. It starts the moment we are born and it continues our whole lives. It is sad somehow, because the valuation of others, lies in the eye of the beholder. When we as children start school, is our expectations are of various kind. In a early stage we will be aware of what is expected of us, what the rules are, but we have no idea what we should expect from our teachers. Nowadays, the discussions about the grades importance for the students or not, one of the main topics when it comes to the Swedish school politic. To follow the debate that goes on in the society today, can (in my opinion) be compared to walk into a timecapsuel that will take you back to the "not so good old days".
First of all I think it´s a short cut for the politicians to cry out for diciplin and an earlier grade system. It seems pretty desperate to strive for a solution that will bring the educational system backwards. To belive that you have better control over what the pupils actually learn in school if you introduces grades in primary school, are to fooling yourself. Grades have always been a kind of tool that is used for to "scare" pupils in doing better. But is that education?
The politicians must know by now that the school system needs more resources like; more teachers, smaller classes, an upgraded education for the teachers, valuation of the teachers capability to educate and to implement the feeling of being in control of your own education as a student. This will lead us to a school where the content of teaching is the primary and not the pursuit of early rating goal.
Second of all I think that bad results reflects how well the school and the teachers have succeded to provide an education that will leed the students to satisfactory results. When we talk about bad grades, we always see the student as a problem. I would say that it is time to turn that mirror around and look at the whole system, before we "punish" the students with a early grade system. Personally, I think that grades tells me nothing about what that person really are capable of. When I was a kid, grades did not only stand for an valuation of your accomplishment in school. It also stood for a social ratings accounted for the grading of your "social class". In some strange way, the children who belonged to what the teacher thought was "the upper class", always had high or higher grades, although their results were not better than the workingclass boy or girl. This injustice was in fact quite common which of course could always be justified by the teacher. I think that many children felt unfairly treated. The school let you know that you should belong to your class and not think that you could "be something", even if your study results were good. This was a side of the class society which then prevailed, a class society that I believe that we increasingly are on our way back to (more or less), which reflects a individualistic social climate that currently prevails.
So lets not go back to the "not so good old days", lets go forward.
From day one, we are valuated as human beings. It starts the moment we are born and it continues our whole lives. It is sad somehow, because the valuation of others, lies in the eye of the beholder. When we as children start school, is our expectations are of various kind. In a early stage we will be aware of what is expected of us, what the rules are, but we have no idea what we should expect from our teachers. Nowadays, the discussions about the grades importance for the students or not, one of the main topics when it comes to the Swedish school politic. To follow the debate that goes on in the society today, can (in my opinion) be compared to walk into a timecapsuel that will take you back to the "not so good old days".
First of all I think it´s a short cut for the politicians to cry out for diciplin and an earlier grade system. It seems pretty desperate to strive for a solution that will bring the educational system backwards. To belive that you have better control over what the pupils actually learn in school if you introduces grades in primary school, are to fooling yourself. Grades have always been a kind of tool that is used for to "scare" pupils in doing better. But is that education?
The politicians must know by now that the school system needs more resources like; more teachers, smaller classes, an upgraded education for the teachers, valuation of the teachers capability to educate and to implement the feeling of being in control of your own education as a student. This will lead us to a school where the content of teaching is the primary and not the pursuit of early rating goal.
Second of all I think that bad results reflects how well the school and the teachers have succeded to provide an education that will leed the students to satisfactory results. When we talk about bad grades, we always see the student as a problem. I would say that it is time to turn that mirror around and look at the whole system, before we "punish" the students with a early grade system. Personally, I think that grades tells me nothing about what that person really are capable of. When I was a kid, grades did not only stand for an valuation of your accomplishment in school. It also stood for a social ratings accounted for the grading of your "social class". In some strange way, the children who belonged to what the teacher thought was "the upper class", always had high or higher grades, although their results were not better than the workingclass boy or girl. This injustice was in fact quite common which of course could always be justified by the teacher. I think that many children felt unfairly treated. The school let you know that you should belong to your class and not think that you could "be something", even if your study results were good. This was a side of the class society which then prevailed, a class society that I believe that we increasingly are on our way back to (more or less), which reflects a individualistic social climate that currently prevails.
So lets not go back to the "not so good old days", lets go forward.
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