> ... one of Dewey's central themes, that the ultimate aim of production is not production of goods but the production of free human beings associated with one another on terms of equality. That includes, of course, education, which was a prime concern of his. The goal of education, to shift over to Bertrand Russell, is "to give a sense of the value of things other than domination, to help create wise citizens of a free community, to encourage a combination of citizenship with liberty, individual creativeness, which means that we regard a child as a gardener regards a young tree, as something with an intrinsic nature which will develop into an admirable form given proper soil and air and light."

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Education is, of course, in part a matter of schools and colleges and the formal information systems. That's true whether the goal of education is education for freedom and democracy, as Dewey advocated, or education for obedience and subordination and marginalization, as the dominant institutions require. The University of Chicago sociologist James Coleman, one of the main students of education and effects of experience on children's lives, concludes from many studies that "the total effect of home background is considerably greater than the total effect of school variables in determining student achievement." Actually, about twice as powerful in effect, he concludes from a lot of studies. So it's therefore important to have a look at how social policy and the dominant culture are shaping these factors, home influences
and so on.

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> Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, who writes that what each person seeks in an “ideal situation” is “mastery over a world of slaves.” That’s what you seek, in case you hadn’t noticed, something that Adam Smith would have regarded as simply pathological.
https://archive.org/details/chomskyonmiseduc00chom/page/n1/mode/2up
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> Wilhelm von Humboldt,..inspired John Stuart Mill .. like.. Adam Smith, regarded creative work freely undertaken in association with others as the core value of a human life. So if a person produces an object on command, Humboldt wrote, we may admire what he did but we will despise what he is, not a true human being who acts on his own impulses and desires...
#NoamChomsky #DemocracyAndEducation #Humboldt #WilhelmHumboldt and other thinkers on #Work #CreativeWork v. #BoughtPriesthood #御用学者

> ..with his stress on sympathy and the goal of perfect #equality and the basic human right to #CreativeWork..[in] to those who.. shamelessly invok[e] Adam Smith's name... #NobelPrize winning economist #JamesBuchanan.. writes.. "what each person seeks in an ideal situation is mastery over a world of slaves.".. in case you hadn't noticed..Adam Smith would have regarded as simply pathological..
https://rtraba.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/noam-chomsky-democracy-and-education.pdf
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> 「生産の究極的な目的は商品の生産にあるのではなく、対等の立場で互いに連帯する自由な人間を生み出すことにある」というデューイの中心的な主題の一つに戻ってみましょう。それはもちろん教育を含んでいます。それこそが彼の最も重要な関心事だったのですから。教育の目的とは、ここでバートランド・ラッセルの言葉を借りれば、｢独裁的支配とは異なった物事の価値の感覚を与えること、自由な共同体の聡明な市民の創出を支援すること、市民生活に自由と個人の創造性を結び付けることを奨励すること、つまり庭師が若樹を眺めるように、適切な土壌と空気と光りが与えられれば素晴らしい形に成長して行く固有の性質を持ったものとして眺めるように、我々が子供を眺めること｣にあります..人間が普通に持っている創造的行動様式が成長して行くような環境を与えるという思想は、18世紀の考え方なのです。
https://rootless.org/chomsky/demo_edu_J.html
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