Why We Obsess about the Goals of Schooling even though Schools Continually Fail to Meet These Goals

This post is a paper I presented in 2008 at the annual meeting of the research group on the Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium.  The theme of the papers for this meeting was "Proofs, Arguments, and Other Reasonings: The Language of Education."  The paper was published in a … Continue reading Why We Obsess about the Goals of Schooling even though Schools Continually Fail to Meet These Goals