Tag: Radical

• September 19, 2011

  On the other side of radical education lies wisdom: An exhortation; or, on the question whether really free is really good

  As I review the list of alternative higher education schools, I’m struck almost immediately by their shared ethos of anarchism. They begin with a rejection of the status quo and then level their critique at the corporatization of the modern research university. They say that the university is the institution of elitism, the perpetuation of privilege,…