EDEC 260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Elie Wiesel, Loaded Question, Standardized Test

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 260
• Professor: Ronald Morris

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Kohn: what does it mean to be well educated? (for pragmatism, against essentialism) What is categorized as well educated seems to be up for interpretation in how you frame the question and what you put importance on. Need to look at what the purpose of education actually is. The article says that the main aim of education should be to produce competent, caring, loving, and lovable people . We must determine first what the goal of education actually is before we are able to determine if it has done its job or not. It is important to understand that what is important to one person, or to one culture may not be crucial to another and that this will never be agreed upon it is all relative. Seat time: sitting in a class for a certain amount of time doesn"t make you well educated.