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socialization.
that's what education, particularly at the more basic levels, is. nothing more, nothing less.
that it can open onto other possibilities is a result of the internal design of education as it's currently understood, so almost an accident if you see it from the viewpoint of it's larger functions.
this is really obvious.
personally, i am not against formal education per se---but i think the ways in which captialist social reproduction organizes information are wholly dysfunctional, and given that the primary role of formal eduction is to imprint that information organization as if it were necessary (this because it's central both to workerbee skillsets and the organization of political consent), the ways in which is reproduction in education are also dysfunctional.
but at the same time, the way you are in a position to articulate that critique is through that same system.
the ways in which you can imagine alternatives presuppose what you already know as a baseline.
personally, i think a new bauhaus or new black mountain school would be an interesting political action in the field of education.
if anyone's got a few million laying around they're not using, i have a plan.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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