The goal of most "radical" educators seems to be to create new radicals, to shape the raw material that is children into a completed adult product which is a revolutionary. While the goals are different, this is otherwise indistinguishable from conventional education, where children are seen as unformed and in need of shaping, instead, into productive citizens.

In none of this is a child seen as a full person, right now, who has worth merely by being a person now, and who is deserving of freedom from the crushing violence of patriarchal adult supremacy.

No education is radical if it is concerned primarily with producing a specific kind of person, rather than dismantling adult supremacy and moving towards youth liberation.

#youthliberation #anarchisteducation