What’s wrong with mainstream education?

What’s wrong with mainstream education?

TASK: To how many of the following would you say ‘yes’, State your reasons and support with personal and/or research eveidence.

Too mechanistic?;
Too materialistic ?;
Too fragmentary?;
Too shallow - too little concerned with the making of rich and deep meaning (constructing and de-constructing)?;
Too un-spiritual and un-spiritualizing?;
Too little concerned with personal development;
Too little concerned with service and learning through service?;
Too little concerned with heart/feelings?;
Too little involvment of family?;
Too little involvement of and with community?;
Too little concerned with moral/character education?;
Too little concerned with reasoning & thinking skills?;
Too holistically un-challenging?;
Too left-brain (although it doesn’t do that well)?
Too little based on a coherent view of what it is to be fully, and positively, human?;
Too little sense of Mystery, Mythos & the sacred - in a broad non-sectarian sense?

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