When men meet and talk, out of the public eye, and agree to great civil changes, they have in fact conspired to achieve an outcome. Some actual conspiracies are not achieved, and usually remain tarred with the epithet "conspiracy theory". Some actual conspiracies are achieved, such as the dissolution of the USSR - here's a little update on this one, triggered by a recent Atlantic Council meeting. Who is celebrating the assassination of the USSR? http://theduran.com/celebrating-assassination-ussr/ (Alt: http://orientalreview.org/2016/11/27/who-is-celebrating-the-assassination-of... ) " Every corner of that suffering country was soon confronted by the historical fallout from the intellectual sloth, complacency, and indolence of both the Soviet elites as well as the masses. " Notwithstanding ones position on "state" vs "political anarchy", rapid changes to an existing system have consequences, tending to the chaotic, and in this case we see the final years of the USSR causing a great many Russians to suffer greatly under perestroika, and even more so from the undignified (and some would say almost entirely criminal) break up of the USSR. So failure to change has consequences, and change has consequences, to speak obvious tautology. Ultimately the details matter - what are the intentions and actions of those who cause the change? Most sheeple wait for others to instigate change, fail to support those who express "good intention", and ultimately suffer the outcomes of the actions of others. Good luck, On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 08:57:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 08:30:31PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Enjoy :) http://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution
Some really awesome stuff in there - here's a teaser:
" Chamberlin questioned Lunacharsky, the commissar for education, about whether such a model provided sufficient education in basic skills such as grammar and spelling. Lunacharsky replied: “Frankly, we don’t attach so much importance to the formal school discipline of reading and writing and spelling as to the development of the child’s mind and personality. Once a pupil begins to think for himself he will master such tools of formal knowledge as he may need. And if he doesn’t learn to think for himself no amount of correctly added sums or correctly spelled words will do him much good.”23 But, Chamberlin explained, it was hard to provide hard data on the success of the program, as “marks are proverbially an unreliable gauge of students’ ability; and Russia has no grading system.”24 Examinations were also largely abolished, including those that had previously been necessary to gain entrance into institutions of higher education. Why? Because “it was believed that no one would willingly listen to lectures that were of no use to him.”25 "
One could say in response to the above that the USSR proved a formidable military power and still provides America's rocket engines to get to the ISS, so history shows that the USSR's soviet program worked well for a time, despite its ultimate collapse.
Re Vygotsky's explorations of learning and psychology - something dear to the heart of my own schooling experiences: "Although this task was incomplete upon his death, and both his work and the revolution itself were derailed by Stalinism (his work was banned under Stalin for twenty years after his death),34 he made great headway in this process..."
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