a combination of the two corporate capital needed the fluidity that the middle classes represented and the 60s radicals thought they could use the cultural feild to advance their political agenda - this resulting in the culture (lifestyle) wars of the 80s - these two projects along with other mechanisms - such as the increase in productivity brought about by technology and the globalization of corporate and commodity culture - resulted in education becoming an explicitly vocational (training) at all levels
*CriticalPractice* 21 TREET PROJECTS La Table Ronde 162 West 21 Street NYC, NY 10011 [email protected] www.21stprojects.org On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Michael Brady <[email protected]>wrote: > On Feb 9, 2013, at 11:14 AM, saul ostrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > very english Public School and ivy thinking - not very American public > > school were literacy was the goal > > "... where literacy was the goal." > > > and later > > > Actually, what seems to have done this was the destruction of the middle > > classes who once thought education was not only a way to get ahead but > to > > improve one's self - sometime in the 70s when the middle classes because > > they were the only one with economic reserves became economically > > vulnerable as such improving oneself came to mean preserving oneself > > economically - the irony is that today, education does not guarantee > one > > will do better than their parents > > So it comes down to a Marxist view of history in terms of economic > struggles? > > Or do you mean the 70s, when the 60s radicals began to get faculty > positions > in high schools and colleges and to promote the notion that "right" and > "wrong" answers are social constructs that only serve to sustain the > hegemony > of privilege? That preferences of grammatical forms and logical arguments > are > social discriminators that promote the racist subtext of society? That > effort > and intent are equivalent to results? That rote work in school is > conditioning > the drones for the assembly line? > > > > | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > Michael Brady
