13 Myths About HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION
Every year the California Grand Lodge and its constituent Masonic lodges throughout the state proclaim one month to be “Public Colleges Month.” A proclamation is routinely delivered by the sitting Grand Master, read aloud in each constituent lodge during one or more monthly acknowledged meetings. In other words where there are equitable relationships, control over the educational process, and the probabilities of basic change we needn’t look beyond the process. Dewey (1916: 7) argued, thus, that our ‘chief business’ as educators is to enable folks ‘to share in a typical life’.
Ultimately our efforts at facilitating learning should be judged by the extent to which they further the capacity to flourish and to share in life. It is in this means that we end up with a definition of education as ‘the clever, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that every one should have the possibility …