I agree with some of the points that Boomer makes, however the rest of them are extreme. Boomer (1988, p.179) ‘You may accordingly see codification of education as a lethal form of hardening of the categories; an attempt to establish the clinic in the classroom; a manifestation of 1984’ Comparing schooling to Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel that persecutes individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrime. This idea is ridiculous, as many teachers that I have come across have been quite open to discussion and push active involvement in the classroom.
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He or she really does not know whether it is likely to be any good. Teacher, dues ex machina, will decide.’ As a learner I am not required to know if it is any good, for this is the reason I am attending schooling, if I knew, I would be teaching. To suggest that students only thrive for good marks and not the experience of learning is a narrow view of students in educational environments.
Evidently my schooling experiences are very different from what Boomer thinks happens in