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'Self-educated man is out'
by MARSHA KAHM
Staff Writer
The self-educated man is
out of style today, John Holt
told a packed Union ballroom
audience Thursday afternoon.
Author and educational
reformer , Holt said that
schools have so much of a
monopoly that it doesn't count
to learn anymore unless a
person learns in school.
Everyone accepts this as a
right, said the author of How
Children Fail but it is a
disastrous mistake to equate
schooling with learning and
education.
He explained that he went
through the traditional
educational system
unquestioning and conforming.
It wasn't until he had taught
for five years that he began to
question the value of the
system.
"I gradually began to notice
that there were all sorts of
students who weren't there to
learn, they were there because
their parents forced them to be
there."
For the last hundred years
education has been defined as
schooling, Holt said. It is a
transaction between students,
who are nothing but students,
and teachers, who by and large
are nothing but teachers.
iAV UNION,
THE FACT that it doesn't
concern anyone else has several
disastrous consequences,
according to Holt. One is that
when schooling is defined as
learning it becomes so
expensive that 95 per cent of
the people cannot afford it.
Even though this is
primarily in poor countries, he
pointed out, it also is true in
the United States, the richest
nation in the world.
Of the $70 billion allocated
for education by the
government only $36 billion
goes to secondary and
elementary schools. This
money is unevenly distributed
between the rich and the poor
kids.
'IN ORDER to provide
equality in resources for all
children we would probably
have to spend over $200
billion," added the teacher,
"and this will never happen."
"And it wouldn't be
enough, no matter how much
we spent," he went on,
"because we have created a
situation where a person's
success depends on the amount
and the expensiveness of the
schooling he is able to obtain."
Holt called this "the
competitive consumption of
schooling." And, the people
who benefit most are those
who can remain in school
longer the rich. Therefore
there is much more tax money
spent on the rich rather than
poor children.
"I can't see anything to
contest this as long as we keep
putting our resources into the
schools," said Holt. "As long as
this happens it makes it too
difficult for anyone to create
alternatve avenues of learning."
For instance the high
schools have more money for
their narrow age group than
the libraries do for the wide
range of people and age groups
they serve.
HOLT WANTS a society
where learning resources are
not locked up in the schools
and where schools are not
defined as "education".
As for the institution of
childhood, Holt said:
"We have built a walled
garden for children to shelter
and protect them from the
exploitiveness of the world
outside,"
"It is not protective, in
itself it is destructive and
exploitive."
Museum director
to discuss
environment
"Nebraska's Environment,
Past and Present" will b?
explored by C. B. Schultz,
museum director, in the final
Curator Lecture sponsored by
the University of Nebraska
State Museum.
The program will be held at
3 p.m. Sunday in Room 20 of
Morrill Hall, 14th and U. The
lecture is free and open to the
public.
Schultz is a popular public
speaker and has been director
of the nationally renowned
University of Nebraska State
Museum with its uniqne
Elephant Hall since 1941.
A native of Red Cloud, he is
an internationally known
expert in the fields of
vertebrate paleontology,
geology and "early man".
Schultz will examine the
historical changes in Nebraska's
climate, ranging from tropical
to arctic.
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THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1971
