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Re: Education and the Death of a Free Society
Posted by: Red Deathy ( UK ) on May 06, 1997 at 17:37:12:
In Reply to: Education and the Death of a Free Society posted by julian watts on April 19, 1997 at 17:01:06:
> Education is cornerstone for both the development and maintenance of the
> psychological well-being of any free society. While I agree with much of what you say- and certainly you are not the only person noting such things (Noam Chmosky's propaganda model springs to mind)
you do miss out a fundamental point by not questioning the education system itself. To start with- very simply, the division of Labour into people who work with their hands, and people who work with their minds, creates an ideological gap- the people responsible for thinking become divorced from society, and tend to become tame, and just as much a part of the propaganda model as the journalists. Thus education is not beautiful and transparent- while knowledge is good, education slants knowldege, and limits learning to acceptable areas- in Britain our politicians have just been fighting over who can impose the most control upon the state education.
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