Hi I seem not to have received the beginning of the Warnoc thread. Can
someone send it to me? Was Baroness Warnock suppose to have send something
positive about disability or negative?
Thanks for filling me in
Cheers
GRegor
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, A.Elphick
wrote:
>
>
> Hi Lawrence
> I am sorry to say I don't know where you can get a transcript of the
> programme in which Baroness Warnock said that her group had come up with
> 'the purpose of education is enjoyment' The programme was " 'Melvin
> Bragg-In our Time' in which Melvin Brag and guests discuss ideas and events
> which have influenced our time." Broadcast on BBC radio 4 Thursday 4/1/99
> at 9.00 am and repeated at 9.30 pm. You could try the BBC direct or via
> their web pages.
>
> And to Mairian
> I would make two points. One was that Baroness Warnock was talking about a
> time in the past..when for the first time since the war, the government of
> the UK was asking for advice on the education of children who would 'never
> become financial contributors to our society'. She was reflecting back at
> a thin end of a wedge so to speak.
> The second point is that those of us who regardless of impairment were
> educated in what are variously called 'progressive, 'democratic' or 'child
> owned' schools reject as such the right to have our education externally
> assessed. We can be the only true judges, individually, on what we consider
> to be our education.
>
> I would refer you all..all thinkers about social policy and the right of
> the individual to the Summerhill School web page and it's 'save summerhill'
> mail list.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Amaryllis
>
Dr. Gregor Wolbring
Research Scientist at the
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty of Medicine
and Adjunct Assistant Professor
at the Dept. of Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies
Faculty of Education
both University of Calgary
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