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Educational Spines: Another Application of Shaw's Critical Thinking

by Chifu Loredana Ioana

A paraphrase of Shaw's Fabian Tract No. 2: A Manifesto (1884).The most striking result of our present educational system of farming out the students and their capital as private individuals has been the division of schools into hostile classes, with large appetites and poor curriculum at one extreme, and large curriculum and no appetites at the other.hashtag#EducationalPhilosophy hashtag#GeorgeBernardShaw hashtag#EducationalReform hashtag#CriticalPedagogy hashtag#EducationalInequalityThis podcast explores educational insight inspired by George Bernard Shaw's critical approach to social institutions. I examine the concerning maze in our educational landscape between schools with "large appetites and poor curriculum at one extreme, and large curriculum and no appetites at the other."While Shaw's original 1884 Fabian Tract No.2 - A Manifesto. Fabian Tracts No. 2 (London: George Standring, 1884) - focused on broader socialist economic principles, this podcast applies his analytical fr