I created this blog with the intention of expressing my conviction that education has gone amiss during the 20th century. The 20th century has been dominated by one major event and that is the Industrial Revolution. This event has changed the very fabric of our society, from working conditions, mass production of products, advances in technology and other natural sciences, the growth of cities, living conditions, and of course the changes in education and the role of government in our lives.
Don't get me wrong I think the Industrial Revolution has done some wonderful things for our society, and I would never want or expect anyone to be forced to live in a non-industrialized society. I enjoy, as most others, the wonderful things that have been created because of the Industrial Revolution, such as the many technological innovations, and advances in the natural sciences, (biology, physics, chemistry, medicine, etc).
But of course with everything in life nothing is just completely good or bad. There are many aspects of industrialism that have been negative for Americans. For example, industrial food production, public education, the expansion of government into the economy, the growth of military-industrial complex, psychiatry, positivism, and pragmatism. Basically we have tried to industrialize many of the things that shouldn't have been industrialized and allowed many of the things which were originally either sacred, or esoteric, to become mechanized, secular, and dehumanized.
This blog will focus on the negative aspects of Industrialism as well as remedies for this disease. I hope to show that there will some sort of middle ground where we can accept certain aspects of Industrialism but leave those other areas of humanity free from the mechanization and dehumanization process which occurs when something becomes industrialized.
Above is a painting of "The School of Athens" by Raphel, and a picture of Blooms's Taxonomy of Digital Learning. It is my hope that we as a society can phase out what Industrialism did to the humanities and pick back up with the some ideals that Renaissance thinkers aspired to and blend them with all of the positive technological, and scientific innovations of our 21st century world.
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