> How about a course in poetry, cave paintings, modern art,
>mathematical logic, American history and political philosophy?
> Which just so happened. Read "On the uses of a liberal education,
>part II, As a weapon in the hands of the restless poor." Written by Earl
>Shorris, Harper's Magazine, September, 1997.
AH! This I am heading out to find today. Thank you Phillip! Education as a
tool/as weapon... yessssss.
> The program continues in the Yucatan using classical Maya
>literature in Maya.
>
> Someone's making a difference, I'd say.
>
>And, in the words of Eugene, "What do you think?"
>
I think I need to read this article. :-) I think the possibilities for
re-organzing university practice as something less elite
are crucial if the university is going to survive. If universities
don't take up a more socially-relevant role in change,
it will be all over but for the coporations' inevitable take-over.
(i.e., only the elite will rescue the elite: unless the elite choose to
give up their
position and do the radical thing -
re-distribution of wealth and resources, and all that commie-talk.
diane -
(this is about the relations of democracy and capitalism, of course;
buuuuut that's too far afield yet.)
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
Ani Difranco
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university of british columbia
vancouver, bc canada
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