Practical Anarchism by Scott Branson

Author:Scott Branson [Branson, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pluto Press

Isn’t education one of the most important things we can invest in?

We can’t separate learning from the context in which it happens. While we pick up important skills in school, the institution itself works to mold our thinking in line with the logic of the state and capital. For one thing, the process of schooling literally breaks our body into the mold of regimented time for work. Little children don’t want to sit in rooms all day. Teenagers don’t want to wake up first thing in the morning to rush to school. School instills competition and false ideas of meritocracy, and naturalizes hierarchical differences like race and gender. Imagine studying in a variety of other contexts on your own time, with your own energy, in collaboration, without false objective evaluation. We might also think about how educational processes sever us from our environment, which would then allow us to rethink study as integration with the world around us, not mastery over it through knowledge.

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