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Anthony Boynton wrote: > > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > A few words about education, public education, private schools, and > charter > schools. > > I have been watching the sparks fly between Joaquin and Artesian regarding > education and would like to make a few off the cuff remarks. Although I > agree with Joaquin’s premise that the framework should be, "fighting > bourgeois education.", rather than simply "fighting bourgeois attacks on > education", I think that the first step in fighting “bourgeois education” > is > defending and promoting the democratic right to free universal public > education. In any case I want to address this issue in a different way. > Capitalism already provides a type of "free universal public education", I think. It comes through television, radio, movies, music and this synthetic medium we are using. Education comes to us as a commodity. On the whole, its message (or lesson) is what Christopher Lasch called "the propaganda of commodities": Liberation is achieved, according to this view, if you constantly buy, consume and sell yourself within the confines of capitalist economic relations as defined by Madison Ave. & Co.; shit like "You've come a long way, baby!", etc. Maybe, if we succeed in placing "commodity" in the popular pejorative and attack "bourgeois education" as a promoter of it we may get the type of education you and I want for our families and our communities. I hope you'll agree that it's not enough to abolish the commodity aspect of capitalist "bourgeois education" if at the same time we do not abolish the commodity aspect of all other useful and productive work. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/-Marxism--A-few-words-about-education-tp26990268p26994229.html Sent from the Marxism mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
