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This is a somewhat oddly-titled article. Is "anti-education activism" a term accepted mutually by both its participants and its detractors? Are the philosophies listed on the page really against education or would it be more accurate to say they are skeptical about the present system of education (e.g. schools as we know them)? Using the word "anti-" also seems introduces a measure of bias, in my opinion. It would be like calling pro-choice activists anti-life activists. It seems to me this article should be either merged with Unschooling or be retitled to something along the lines of "Alternative education activism."
The term "activism" is questionable as well. This article seems to be more about presenting philosophies of alternative education than documenting activism concerned with those philosophies. There is already an article for Alternative Education, so also please consider merging with this. Thanks!
I was re-directed to this page from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-education
which seems inappropriate to me. Not only is it a separate topic in its own
right, but a topic that is only partially related to Anti-education activism.
(Not to mention that the reader may see a non-existing connection between
a particular ideological view and a value neutral academic topic.)
Further, I am puzzled by the brief sub-entry on over-education. Certainly, the statements refer to parts of what over-education is and what the consequences can be; however, other aspects such as a blue-collar worker who simply feels that he wasted the last three years in school learning (or failing to learn) more than what he needed to know to get by in the world.
My recommendation would be to break out this section into a separate article, give it a full treatment (including references to research on the topic), and provide a link from Anti-education activism to the new article. 88.77.144.30 ( talk) 09:47, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Having read several books on the matter by the concerned activists, I've yet to see one that opposes education. They denounce *schooling* (for whatever reason, including published data showing that institutionalized schooling *retards* educational attainment vis-à-vis home education or unschooling).
It would be a total joke to confuse "anti-schooling" with "anti-education"; the latter would be opposed to all forms of knowledge acquisition, whether via schooling or whatever. Saravask ( talk) 00:11, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
I think John Taylor Gatto deserves to be in more of this article than just the "see also" section. It may also be a good idea to include criticisms of schooling for encouraging ageism, adultism, adultcentrism, hierarchy, and the like. Obviously state schools have a bias in favor of maintaining the status quo by forcing ideologies that encourage the subsistence and preservation of schooling itself in addition to deliberately pushing a biased agenda in favor of statism and classism. 72.240.84.53 ( talk) 03:03, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
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The paragraphs about "School related stress and depression" and "Unfree child labour" were wholly deleted on July 14. If individual sentences weren't supported by their references perhaps it makes sense to delete those, but most of the sentences had multiple references. For example this sentence had 4 references supporting it yet it was deleted:
Academic pressure and rigorous schooling has been pointed to as a cause of the high rate of suicide among South Korean adolescents.
If one or two of the references didn't support the statement or weren't good references then it makes sense delete those references or edit the statement, but all the articles support the statement. There is even a section on suicide because of school pressure here: /info/en/?search=Suicide_in_South_Korea
Is an NY times article about south korean suicide better than an NPR article? This is just one example. In fact, most of the sentences deleted have multiple references.
Can someone please review those edits and the others by Volunteer Marek ? As I created the paragraphs I don't think I am impartial.
( Editor182971 ( talk) 21:22, 5 September 2017 (UTC))
No one has stepped forward to review those edits. They were mass deletions, completely biased and uncalled for. I have added additional quotes to references to further support arguments that were already supported by many references and I have undone Volunteer Merrek's biased and destructive deletes. ( Editor182971 ( talk) 21:22, 25 May 2018 (UTC))
The main problem with this article is that is serves as a WP:COATRACK for "Criticism of the American public school system", not really "Anti-schooling activism". Virtually all of this articles is about what's wrong with formal schooling. And god knows schools deserve some of this criticism. But that's not the topic of this article. Like it says nothing about who is involved in anti-school activism, what kind of alternatives they propose, what policies they propose etc.
Tried to fix it but it seems people really want their criticism of schools in here. Volunteer Marek 19:30, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
Per above, this article is a WP:COATRACK that contains very little sourced content about the actual movement, only their arguments. Can support a move instead of a split if coverage of the actual movement is not improved. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 06:28, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
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17:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC)The result of the move request was: moved based on consensus in the section above and lack of opposition below. ( closed by non-admin page mover) Lennart97 ( talk) 19:10, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
Anti-schooling activism → Criticism of schooling – The article, as currently written, contains minimal content about an actual movement, instead focusing entirely on their arguments. (There may be a better title than the one I proposed.) – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 17:55, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
There were numerous problems with the tone, style (especially sentence length), and coverage of the lead. In a quick encounter, I tried to make the problems a little less foreboding, but there was only so much a few quick edits could accomplish.
If someone wants to take a bigger stab, I see three main threads: