The contemporary classroom is a product of a bygone era, when the primary purpose of education was to prepare children and teens for adult life in an industrial society. Dozens of students, often uninformed, seated at identical desks, placed at equal distances, and all facing the same direction in order to receive the same instruction from the same individual at the same times every day: This wildly unnatural arrangement made sense in the early part of the twentieth century because young people really did need to be shaped for entrance into a mass, commercial society and for jobs in factories
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Just, what? Is she mad they weren't having casual classroom picnics outside at Columbia-? Do we not still have a commercial society with jobs in factories and clerical work-?? What is the meaning of this lol
