>> The notion that students should mainly be acquiring “skills” or “competencies,” so prevalent in high-level discussions of education policy and in ranking school systems, rings hollow to anyone who has ever cared enough to become a teacher: one teaches because one has fallen in love and, like […]
It has never been more important for American academics and administrators to #FightFascism with every tool at their disposal. @aacu.org
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#LiberalEducation
#IntellectualFreedom
#FirstAmendment
"The problem with liberal education in today’s academy does not lie with our students. The real threat to liberal learning is from an administrative class that is content to offer students far less than their own humanity calls for — and deserves." #liberaleducation
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...the nakedly philistine anti-intellectualism of the ruling class in Trump's USA:
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#PhilosophyOfEducation #LiberalEducation #FormsOfKnowledge #PaulHirst #PaulStandish #Platonism #Wittgenstein #EducationalTheory #UCLIOE @ioe.bsky.social
‘underground universities under communism: what made them counter-institutions?’ – conference: the counter-university. histories movements and ambitions - university of copenhagen – #dissent #hope #theuniversity #liberaleducation
This post & its replies deserve a real bookmark function on here.
(BTW I'd name the two philosophy classes that were electives for me as a physics major.)
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