While reading the chapter on the Progressive philosophy to adult education I could not help but be reminded of the movie "50 First Dates". In the movie, the central character wakes up each morning with no memory anything prior to her waking up. Each morning she has to watch a video that catches her up on why she has no memories and who the people are who are around her. Although disorientating at first, she quickly picks up her situation and experiences the rest of the day with memory in tact. The next morning, it all starts again.
That is how the chapter presents Progressive education from the stand point of replicating and continuing society. Each time a child is born in the United States, it goes through the process of learning our history and whats its role is in society. In the movie, it was a video tape. In real-life, it's schools. The common theme is that the video tape was created to present certain memories and not all, since that would not be possible, just as schools just touch on a little of what can be taught.
The discussion and argument seems to be around what to put on the video tape. Because you change a lot about who the person is simply by changing what's on the tape. That's a lot of power and influence over a person. And that is why there is so much disagreement in what are curiculum's should consist of.
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