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Reality, Unreality, and Virtual Reality.(importance of experience in education)

Arts Education Policy Review,  January, 2001  by DELATTRE, EDWIN J.

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Henry David Thoreau made many pronouncements that I find unpersuasive. However, I think that he hit the nail on the head when he said we use the words "real" and "reality" to refer only to the elements of life that matter the most to us, that we take to be the most important, and that we believe to be serious.

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I conclude from this fact that the idiom popular during the past half-century or more that has done the most to bash teachers, harm students, undermine schools, and derail the intellectual and moral formation of the young is the phrase, "the classroom ...

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