[lbo-talk] Speaking of University Bashing...

[Carrol Cox]

Not bad. Inside capitalism, of course, the probable reform demand is pay
students to go to school.  I'm only concerned in this thread that this
bashing of faculty of what would be praised in most workers cease. Any
worker who complains about long hours is on the right track, whether she's a
janitor or a professor. (Even if she's a _lousy_ professor.) If professors
are guaranteed high pay and low hours regardless of their "competence" etc,
that gives students a free hand to make life a bit miserable for that
professor without threatening the existence of a fellow worker.

Grading could be abandoned. And degrees. Then each county medical
association (as a group and each as an individual) would be heavily punished
each time even one of its members fucked up with a patient. That's a thought
experiment. I doubt that inside capitalism the credentialing function can be
abolished, but to see it from the perspective of my though experiment might
suggest possible modifications.

The difficulty with all criticism, but particularly criticism aimed at
persons, is the collapse into moral judgment -- and "bourgeois morality" is
redundant -- there is no other kind of morality. And it's impossible to
escape it. I fell completely to the first several posts on Gingrich today --
but Jordan is obviously right, & as soon as I read his posts I felt a bit
abashed. 

Carrol

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michael smith:
<>
<> That's why I think the truly radical demand
<> is, Education For Pleasure! Pay people to teach
<> and study useless stuff, just for the merry hell
<> of it! It's a bit like Carrol's Abolish Prisons
<> slogan: it's radical because it calls into question
<> all the unexamined assumptions that underly
<> conventional wisdom on the subject.

that is why I want to know what people expect schooling to look like
in the utopian future.

i can't fathom why we'd need it!

if you stop and think about it, in a society with no private property
and with no need to sort the winners from the also rans, you have zero
need for schools.

so, yay for schools. looking forward to the day we get to smash them!

shag

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