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Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 05:14 PM Feb 2013

Is anybody talking about the idea of "Guerrilla Education"? [View all]

If the present trends continue, there may be either massive closings of or shrinkage of universities, there will be continued increases in tuition, and those universities that survive will be increasingly forced to go to the "white collar trade school" model, with few if any courses emphasizing critical thinking or historical honesty.

If this is going to happen, the Left may need to take education into its own hands and use "guerrilla" methods to spread the information that people will need to learn in order to understand what's happening in this country and how to protect themselves and organize resistance to the continued corporate/military takeover of life.

I haven't spent much time in the Education group, so if there are threads where the notion of alternate means of getting education out to the people are being discussed, please post links to them.

If not, perhaps this could be a thread in which that conversation happens.

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