joshua fost
“I always wanted an education.” This suggests the perspective of a consumer. Education is something coveted, something we get. — As if we could go down to the education store and pick one up for the price of tuition (and get what we paid for).
What if we spoke about schools as workshops rather than stores — places where students go to construct or make an education? Or if we saw a teacher as a mechanic rather than Santa Claus — someone whose job it is to help you maintain or repair ideas, rather than give them to you?
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or as dinner theater, where it’s all a big act but requires the audience to be willing to have a bit of audience participation, but they are paying for the show nonetheless.
but you’re right of course. was it aristotle who said that the job of the educator is merely to turn students’ heads towards the light?
or as my first supervisor put it: for the best students you just give them all the resources you can and then get the hell out of the way.
Or education as pay to earn.