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A 5 page reflective paper on Clive Harber's book School as Violence, which is a provocative text that presents disturbing information that causes the reader to rethink some basic societal assumptions, such as the idea that education and formal schooling are an unequivocal "good" that can benefit any society at any stage of development. After successfully knocking the foundation out from under this supposition, Harber moves on to show that globally, education is often a questionable enterprise, one that more often as not indoctrinates children to violence, degradation and the acceptance of bigotry and authoritarianism. The writer reflects on Harber's points. No additional sources cited.
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that education and formal schooling are an unequivocal "good" that can benefit any society at any stage of development. After successfully knocking the foundation out from under this supposition, Harber
moves on to show that globally, education is often a questionable enterprise, one that more often as not indoctrinates children to violence, degradation and the acceptance of bigotry and authoritarianism.
The principal theme of Harbers text is summed up in the conclusion to his final chapter, which points out that "Formal education is, and always has bee, a site of
struggle between differing views about the nature of humanity and desirable forms of social organization" (Harber 143). In other words, Harber argues that education is not so much about aiding
students in a quest for knowledge, as it is about perpetuating the prevailing ideology of a specific society. This is a disturbing idea, but Harbers argument is broad, diverse and
convincing. As the reader begins this text with a chapter entitled "Is formal education always good for you." The knee-jerk reaction is to answer, "yes, of course it is,"
but Harber quickly calls this answer into question by showing how frequently schools, worldwide, have been the target for violence. Schools cannot be good for children if they do not
survive attendance. However, at this point, it is easy to dismiss this information as regrettable, but not applicable to most situations. Schooling, minus violence, still seems like a good thing.
However, Harber moves on to show how little relevancy formal education has to people living in agrarian cultures. When families have to obtain water by walking it into the village--when
tending the fields means walking three hours and staying overnight--it is easy to see how parents view formal education as something that prevents their children from contributing useful work to
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