FtB did another video podcast, if that’s what they’re called, in which we talked about education. If you’d like to see me all huffy about education being a social justice issue (WHICH IT IS) feel free to skip forward to 1:04:45.
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PS: EDUCATION IS A SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUE
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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mythbri
July 15, 2012 at 1:18 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Of course education is a social justice issue. Given how intrinsically related it is to ALL OTHER SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES, how could it not be?
Martha
July 15, 2012 at 2:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I loved your comments about the importance of education in the arts. I’m a scientist, and I have absolutely no talent in any artistic area, though I’ve always thought the liberal arts are important. In fact, I think my field of (bio)chemistry is a liberal art, too. Nonetheless. I’ve come to realize how much I missed in having almost no formal training in art or music. A few years ago, I bought a course on tape about how to listen to concert music, and I was truly amazed at the effect of that education on my enjoyment of music. I was also angry that my schooling had involved no music theory or history at all. This is in direct contrast to a friend who learned to write four-part harmony for her O-levels (yes, I’m showing my age!) in England.
So we need to increase funding for art and music education, not cut it. We definitely need to give talented students a chance to develop their skills as artists or musicians. We also need to make sure that art and music history are seen as part of an intellectually rigorous high-school education for everyone.