Re: drive-thru education (not)
Phil Graham (pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au)
Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:32:16 +1100
At 15:57 25-11-98 +0100, Eva wrote:
>At 21.38 +1100 98-11-25, Phil Graham wrote:
>>heaps of stuff written about commodified education
>
>As I haven't read those heaps, I suddenly wonder if it says anything that
>reflects back to the economic perspective of an eternal chain of exchange
>values, where consumption is just the withdrawal of an exchange value from
>the circulation, a vanishing. Forgetting the real-ization of the use value.
>Which is where the neutral equivalues may, when unpacked (unpredictably)
>convert in divergences towards opposites of construction and destruction.
>Not at all a vanishing, but something borh risky and potentially
>productive... The educational context made me think...
I hope, then, that things are different where you are. Here, our education
system is in a state of deterioration because of its increasingly
corporate-values orientation and corporate-oriented curricula.
Other Aussies on the list might well disagree with me. If so, I'd love to
hear about positive developments to the contrary anywhere else in our fine
country.
Phil
Phil Graham
pw.graham who-is-at student.qut.edu.au
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/8314/index.html