Re: <nettime> silence on Palestine?

[Christian Swertz via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

I was quite astonished when I learned some details about the school 
systems in Israel and Palestine a few months ago. I was, for example, 
not aware of the Haredi schools for Jews in Israel 
(https://en.idi.org.il/articles/49956), while I knew the Quran schools 
for Muslims in Palestine. It seems reasonable to assume that such school 
systems contribute to the current problem.

I asked myself how a school system can be shaped in a way that prohibits 
the indoctrination of kids by religious organisations or capitalistic or 
communist states (here in Austria catholic and capitalistic 
indoctrination do happen often). Private schools are obviously part of 
the problem. Same for state schools, considerably in non secular, 
capitalist or communist states. An older suggestion by Herbart  is to 
give teachers a status like judges so they can commit themselves to an 
education that is based on the scientifically justified interests of the 
children only. But can educational scientists really guarantee an 
education that is solely based on the best interests of the child? As an 
educational scientist, I'm not really sure.

I'm still searching for smart answers to this old challenge. My last 
idea is that maybe avoiding the prohibition of indoctrination is a good 
idea. Why not make the indoctrination transparent for the kids by 
creating three school systems (private/state/scientific), were the kids 
visit all three in equal share?

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Liebe Grüße,

Christian Swertz
https://www.swertz.at

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