Capitalist Education

[OneBrickOneVoice]

In his lecture at Changsha, Russell .... took a position in favour of communism but against the dictatorship of the workers and peasants. He said that one should employ the method of education to change the consciousness of the propertied classes, and that in this way it would not be necessary to limit freedom or to have recourse to war and bloody revolution.... My objections to Russell's view point can be stated in a few words: 'This is all very well as a theory, but it is unfeasible in practice' .... Education requires money, people and instruments. In today's world money is entirely in the hands of the capitalists. Those who have charge of education are all either capitalists or wives of capitalists. In today's world the schools and the press, the two most important instruments of education are entirely under capitalist control. In short, education in today's world is capitalist education. If we teach capitalism to children, these children, when they grow up will in turn teach capitalism to a second generation of children. Education thus remains in the hands of the capitalists. Then the capitalists have 'parliaments' to pass laws protecting the capitalists and handicapping the proletariat; they have 'governments' to apply these laws and to enforce the advantages and the prohibitions that they contain; they have 'armies' and 'police' to defend the well-being of the capitalists and to repress the demands of the proletariat; they have 'banks' to serve as repositories in the circulation of their wealth ; they have ' factories', which are the instruments by which they monopolize the production of goods. Thus, if the communists do not seize political power, they will not be able to find any refuge in this world

What do you think of this analysis on capitalist education. I won't name the person who said it because I don't want people to just brush it off as garbage.

[theraven]

isn't this something david brooks printed that a hobo had left in the library that he found or somehing.

[Pow R. Toc H.]

Its pretty much true but you cant say that education played the entire role in any revolution alot of a revolution is a bunch of pissed off people.

[Intellectual47]

I find your statement very true because of one tenent of education. People should follow the smartest idea and follow it.

[Intellectual47]

I find your statement very true because of one tenent of education. People should follow the smartest idea and follow it.

[colonelguppy]

In today's world money is entirely in the hands of the capitalists. Those who have charge of education are all either capitalists or wives of capitalists. In today's world the schools and the press, the two most important instruments of education are entirely under capitalist control.

i stopped reading about here. first of all, it is completely dishonest to say that the only people with money are capitalists and that capitalists control all the educational recources.

secondly, "the capitalists" is not some club where they all get together to decide how to brain wash the populace with their propaganda. its i made entirely of individuals trying to do the best business they can.