Learning to Be Stupid in the Culture of Cash
'Let me put it succinctly: I don't think serious education is
possible in America. Anything you touch in the annals of knowledge is a
foe of this system of commerce and profit, run amok. The only education
that can be permitted is if it acculturates to the status quo, as happens
in the expensive schools, or if it produces people to police and enforce
the status quo, as in the state school where I teach. Significantly, at
my school, which is a third-tier university, servicing working-class,
first-generation college graduates who enter lower-echelon jobs in the
civil service, education, or middle management, the favoured academic
concentrations are communications, criminal justice, and social work -
basically how to mystify, cage, and control the masses'
( Luciana Bohne via Democratic
Underground )
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See also Plato's Allegory of the Cave
