Over at the new and tanatalizing blog Eduwonkette, the intrepid mystery blogger [who is that masked woman?] takes on a number of educational blogs which have been engaging in personal attacks on education author Jonathan Kozol. Attack the ideas, she says, not the person.
What is interesting in this and other posts is the educator’s sensibility that Eduwonkette brings to educational policy discussions. Educators are always teaching their students to do precisely what Eduwonkette proposes — criticize ideas, not people. Among the many blogs that went after Kozol and his criticisms of NCLB in a personal way, there was not one written by an actual teacher. Eduwonkette points out that attacks on the person are indicative of an intellectual laziness. That is a vice that seems to grow the farther one is removed from the classroom.
2 Comments:
1 2 good ones by Leo « JD2718
· Oct 2, 2007 at 8:39 pm
[...] Eduwonkette: The Educator’s Sensibility. “Eduwonkette points out that attacks on the person are indicative of an intellectual laziness. That is a vice that seems to grow the farther one is removed from the classroom.“ [...]
2 Closing the Vicious Cycle: The Chimera of the Magic Wand, Schools Alone Cannot Close the Achievement Gap « Ed In The Apple
· Oct 2, 2007 at 9:54 pm
[...] maelstrom, many attacking Kozol more than his ideas. Sol Stern in the City Journal and a number of bloggers go after Kozol, and, obliquely, his [...]
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