a blog post

I didn’t get as far in the reading where he talks about education really but from what I’ve read from the blogs I think I get the gist of it. I know it’s a little off base but it brings me back to my education class I’m taking and let me just stand on my soapbox for a second. The education system does not give teachers enough room to truly teach so basically we’re learning how to take tests and memorize facts… there is very little application involved. My sister observed a teacher who taught his students how to solve problems based on the options off their multiple choice test… they had no idea how to actually solve the problem on its own but they could plug in the numbers to get the answer. I’m not saying that’s terrible and they should know how to test but it’s not truly educating them. If that’s all they’re being taught in high school then how can they be expected to do anything else when they go to college? Really it’s almost at a point where I’m like why go to school at all if there’s not even enough leeway for teachers to teach. I don’t even know how applicable that is to Lyotard but I’ve been real upset about it the last couple days. The group I was in on Tuesday discussed a lot about the language games with a little help from some former honors students. Lyotard gives three different observations about these rules and I thought the third one was the most interesting one. He says “to speak is to fight” and then goes on to say that in language games one doesn’t necessarily play to win, but it’s for the sheer joy of the game itself. I thought it was entertaining…