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	<title>Comments on: Flattening The Pyramid Of Influence</title>
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		<title>By: Artichoke</title>
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		<description>Great post Graham, I think it is likely that many of us became teachers and educators because we experienced success in the traditional school system - where "keeping my mouth shut" is both a predictor for success and an indicator of success.

A place where as Harpaz writes  &lt;i&gt;"Learning is in the pattern of imitation based upon repetition and exercises, accompanied by praise of the excellent and censure of the weak." &lt;/i&gt; 
Where you spend years learning that &lt;i&gt;"your opinions and motivations are of no importance, that to know is to remember, to think is dangerous, since thinking can disrupt the precise replication of the teacher's words; authorities must be obeyed, because they know; knowledge is objective, cumulative and unequivocal; problems are well defined; every problem has a clearcut solution; one's worth is dependant on other's opinions of him/her; learning involves futile sufferind etc "  &lt;/i&gt; www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/colleagues/files/links/conflicting_logics_in_Educ.rtf

As successful products of a system that relies upon the Pyramid of Influence - what is remarkable is that given this patterning that there are edubloggers who are driven to flattening behaviours.  Perhaps the need to edu_blog should be monitored as an early indicator of edu_institutional unrest - as an indicator of individuals who need to be reprogrammed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post Graham, I think it is likely that many of us became teachers and educators because we experienced success in the traditional school system - where &#8220;keeping my mouth shut&#8221; is both a predictor for success and an indicator of success.</p>
<p>A place where as Harpaz writes  <i>&#8220;Learning is in the pattern of imitation based upon repetition and exercises, accompanied by praise of the excellent and censure of the weak.&#8221; </i><br />
Where you spend years learning that <i>&#8220;your opinions and motivations are of no importance, that to know is to remember, to think is dangerous, since thinking can disrupt the precise replication of the teacher&#8217;s words; authorities must be obeyed, because they know; knowledge is objective, cumulative and unequivocal; problems are well defined; every problem has a clearcut solution; one&#8217;s worth is dependant on other&#8217;s opinions of him/her; learning involves futile sufferind etc &#8221;  </i> <a href="http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/colleagues/files/links/conflicting_logics_in_Educ.rtf" rel="nofollow" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/outbound/comment/www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au');">http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/colleagues/files/links/conflicting_logics_in_Educ.rtf</a></p>
<p>As successful products of a system that relies upon the Pyramid of Influence - what is remarkable is that given this patterning that there are edubloggers who are driven to flattening behaviours.  Perhaps the need to edu_blog should be monitored as an early indicator of edu_institutional unrest - as an indicator of individuals who need to be reprogrammed.</p>
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