Re: LOGO-L> Re: What really is Logo?

["Bill Kerr" <kerrb@senet.com.au>]

Brian Harvey wrote:
>Seymour is a brilliant guy who's made a lot of contributions to education.
>But I don't think the deification of Seymour helps the cause, and one
>reason I don't like talking about "the Logo philosophy" instead of
>talking about "progressive education" is that the former encourages
>people to read Seymour's books and stop there, instead of reading
>Dewey and Paul Goodman and John Holt and so on.


I can see the problem about "the Logo philosophy" but I also have a problem
about "progressive education". Some people who describe themselves as
"progressive" see technology as essentially a bad thing (eg. the neo
Luddites, the Greenies to throw in a couple of extra short labels).
Increasingly I have a problem with short definitions of complex entities
because words mean different things to different people. I see it as a
dilemma because sometimes its convenient to talk in shorthand.

-- Bill Kerr

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