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[–] niktemadur 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is how leftists think that progressives/liberals see the world, if the progressives/liberals were the deer. Or something. See the deer as bourgeoise, while the lions are the 1%?

Now add a dash of school to the crockpot, and you have a cartoon that seems to want a repeat of the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s. Maybe even the Taliban currently in Afghanistan.

But this same argument can be used to regard schools as run by a stalinist or Cultural Revolution government, where the deer are the "glorious worker comrades" and the lions are the bureaucratic/military elite.

Bottom line: who knows? I don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Only if you interpret it as blanket anti-intellectualism. Education is a good thing, but one should scrutinize where their information comes from.

And yes, you absolutely could apply the same argument to a school or centralized school system that is funded/administered by any group of elites.

To my mind, the best answer is decentralization. Give individual teachers more freedom within their classrooms, especially in the humanities.