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The Human Pursuit of Learning in the Education Industrial Complex

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010

Following up on my piece yesterday that called out the “Education Industrial Complex”, I want to talk more about the impact of this hugely hierarchical and bureaucratic leviathan and its impact of the very personal, naturally self-initiated process of learning. These mega institutions that exercise such control over us rather than facilitating our own initiative (though well intentioned) I see as remnants of an ancient world view of external authority (which I call “Patriarchy”) that I see as an obstacle towards our human development in the direction of a a more evolved “Circle of Equals”.

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The Education Industrial Complex

Saturday, October 2nd, 2010

schoolfunding4Not sure who coined the phrase “Education Industrial Complex”, a play off the more famous “Military Industrial Complex” used by President Eisenhower in a 1961 speech. It appears to be
Anthony G. Picciano, who wrote an article in 1994 about the growing role of computer technology in schools…
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