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be informed by the disciplines but
only insofar as the students come
ation they presumably settle for a commonsense that professionally
may
be unacceptable
seen as reactionary or progressive depending
upon one’s stance butjust as likely to be muddled and contradictory
especially in these early weeks.
School C 23.10.81 P10∕ll qi
RE That's what John Holt (1973) says - (inaudible)
- that children will learn by their own dis-
covery. I don't agree with that but .....
SS2 No, I’m not saying that -
SSl
So you’ve got to question the system .....
kids by the time they’re 14 or whatever -
that’s been extracted out of them - but
why is it?
Is it because they see no hope.
SS2
In
of
this book by Italian school kids (School
Barb iana
1970) and what stuck in
my mind
was one comment
that one of the kids made
that the teacher came into school and announced
it was a school holiday that was unexpected
and of course all the kids were thrilled
to bits about it. You know the whole
approach that school is a nuisance, that
you have to go through and get what you can
out of it when it should be really something
they enjoy because they could be learning
so much - Maybe
being a bit idealistic.
М2
I don't see anything wrong with being ideal-
istic related to what exists but I think
it’s too easy to talk about the system.
I mean what exactly is the system
SSl What is it then?
Tutor It sounds much more than just the school
system.
SSl It’s the whole way of life in inner London.
What do they see?
М2 Maybe that’s what it is when they're born
they're really naive and hadn’t actually
appreciated what life is like. Maybe it
is a really horrible thing when you just