SOC 2312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Intentionality, Social Inequality, Deschooling

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2312
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

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The more completely she fills the receptacles, the better a teacher she is. The more meekly the receptacles permit themselves to be filled, the better students they are (ibid. , p. 71-2). Adapting to oppression: education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, w/ the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression (freire, p. 78) 2: the pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship & solidarity; therefore, it cannot unfold in the antagonistic relations between oppressors & oppressed (ibid. ) Two-faced nature of learning: the deschooling of society implies a recognition of the two-faced nature of learning. An insistence on skill drill alone could be a disaster; equal emphasis must be placed on other kinds of learning. Learned needs/wants: paradoxically, then, high aggregate consumption resulting from engineered needs fosters growing consumer indifference to specific, potentially felt wants.