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     Education is the securesi form of wealth. 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
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     un—schooled add to strati- 
     
     fication and moderniZe pov - 
     
     erty - and the pyramid takes_ 
     
     off like a rocket: 
     
    
   
   
    
     intentionally or not)as a 
     
     powerful system of structural~ 
     
     inequality.And this is true 
     
     in capitalist,socialist,or 
     
     communist countries. 
     
     ~‘”Education is the Securest 
     
     form of wealth not simply 
     
     because certification slots 
     
     heople into certain socio— ' 
     
     economic positions but mostly 
     
     because the system is self: ’ 
     
     justifying,educating the- 
     
     drop-out to blame himself 
     
     for his "failure" and society 
     
     to respect the monopoly that 
     
     the professions at the top of 
     
     the pyramid have on their 
     
     knowledge and entrance re 
     
     strictions.Generally we don't 
     
     question the right of a doc- 
     
     tor to regularly receive 
     
     ten times as much as a grade 
     
     ten drop-out.Nor do we have 
     
     easy access to the lawyer's 
     
     knowledge of legal proced— 
     
     ures and regulations affect— 
     
     ing our 1iues,or to informa— 
     
     tion on restrictions such as 
     
     UfiB law school having 1100 
     
     applications for 38 positions 
     
     last year.Schooling obscures 
     
     instead of enlightening;this 
     
     is particularly true for ’ 
     
     certification and its results. 
     
     And "improvements"in the 
     
     schools such as increased, 
     
     spending,innovations,facilit- 
     
     ies,and years of schooling 
     
     won't change this situation. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     (Editor's note: Art Reddin 
     
     _ has agreed to do a series 
     
    

    
     goof articles on schooling ' 
     
     ~5-and its impact on society. 
     
    

    
     : As many people know,Art is 
     
     g‘a person with many exciting 
     
     ideas on education,as well 
     
     ='as having a lot of experience 
     
     putting his ideas into pract- 
     
     ice.He has worked in alter— 
     
     native schools and alterna- 
     
     tives to schooling in 
     
     Ch'town and Anglo Tignish 
     
     and is also a student rep 
     
     on our illustrious Board 
     
     of Governors.) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Unfortunately,it doesn't end 
     
     there.Most of our systems or 
     
     tools in both goods and 
     
     service production in indus- 
     
     trial society have gone 
     
     beyond their natural limits It's almost funny nowadays 
     
     Of benefit and in the Process when school administrators 
     
     have caused greeter POlar‘ talk about the equality of 
     
     ization 0f rieh and Poor. the public school system.0ften 
     
     For example,it is common we reflect some of the same. 
     
     place in most countries.of "knowledge—capitalist" mental“ 
     
     the world for governments ity in seeking out greater 
     
    

    
     to fly professionals off to student aid or better facile 
     
     this or that convention or ities or even Our degree 
     
     conference.This special (Perhaps meetly our degree) 
     
     treatment is often ration— Ecenomie inequality isn't 
     
     alized by bureaucrats as the only PrOblem in a Compul‘ 
     
     somé sort of upgrading for sory system of "treatment to 
     
     progress.It is not only the make one betternaalthough it 
     
    
   
   
    
     exfienditure sf public msney is the most c1ear-cut.The view 
     
     that is unjust but it is also is sometime put forward:"What 
     
    
   
   
    
     'the transportation system difference does it make if 
     
     itseIf. - someone's rich or not?Having 
     
     Airports,access roads, ‘material wealth isn't the way 
     
    
   
   
    
     computers,employees,jets,etc to find happiness and it 
     
    
   
   
    
     are wholly or partly finan— doesn't intereSt me at 311!" 
     
     eed through public funds, I agree and would rather talk 
     
    
   
   
    
     yet the use of air travel of liberation than of "equal 
     
     is restricted to those who ability to purchase consumer— 
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
       
     
        
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     “Whereas it appears that 
     
     however certain forms of 
     
     government are better cal- 
     
     culated than others to pro- 
     
     tect individuals...and are 
     
     better guarded against de- 
     
    

    
     55 generacy, yet experience 
     
     ( hath shown that even under 
     
     better forms, those entrust- 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ _f ed with power have 
     
     'f in time perverted it 
     
     into tvranny; and it is be- 
     
    
   
   
    
     - "if’fring‘ ’ kii‘il‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     can_pay the high cost for. able goods and services".Yet, 
     
     such "mobility" either out although man isn't intrinsic—. 
     
     of their incomes or contract ally an economic being,economic 
     
     benefits.(Incidently,similar inequalities are at leaSt Sym- 
     
     npackaging" necessarily puts' tomatic of certain unjust human 
     
     many consumer services and conditiOns.Please contact me 
     
     goods out of reach of the if Y°u can help in this quest- 
     
     poor,e.g.the fisherman gets ion or if you have "SPeCial 
     
    

    
     8c 3 1b. for fish yet his insight" about fundamental 
     
     wife can't afford the spec— ' contradiCtionSin the school 
     
     iallywrapped,decorated,de- System,A1so there are plans 
     
     boned,frozen,shipped,handled, for running a seminar on 
     
    

    
     and advertized $1 a ib-$“V€" education,and a skill exchange 
     
     market product -;)Anywa~y,openr [is being set up‘ at thé bulle— 
     
     ended systems which benefit tin board in Main,— so,if 
     
    

    
     the certified weii‘edueeted you're interested,get active! 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     lieved that the most effect- 
     
     ual means of preventing this 
     
     would he to illuminate as 
     
     far as practicable the minds 
     
     of the people at large and 
     
     more especially to give them 
     
     knowledge of the experience 
     
     of other ages and countries 
     
     that they may be enabled to 
     
     know ambition under all its 
     
    

    
     ‘ shapes and defeat its purp- 
     
     ‘iruose.“ 
     
    

    
     Bill for the More General 
     
     Diffusion of Knowledge 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The inequality,however, 
     
     doesn't stop at simply being 
     
     a pyramid.In the upper echelons 
     
     of the certified society the 
     
     professionals get additional 
     
     contract benefits(free from 
     
     income tax)such as travel 
     
     communication,vacation,& 
     
     convention expenditures, 
     
     which often are as great as 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
          
     
         
     
           
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
        
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     their salaries - a 
     
     I st¢ca e There aresmigyRonnie at the expense of the V'flét A 
     
     when Thomas Jefferson indications that the definition A 
     
     first proposed the right of progress asibeing,ever ‘tqoa, 
     
     to three years of free increasing Service and goods +J 
     
     public education in 1804 is a direct result of a , 5 \ 
     
     «he had hoped that this schooled mentality or logic. “ 
     
     beneficial service would If you've received a 1°t,than *3» \ 
     
     Strength“? eemocra-eyend you're allowed to received’a " 1. CATIDNAL- 
     
     equality in his country. lot lordsee chart) I‘ _ x, > ‘BufiAUCRMY ‘ 
     
     Public schooling still par- With these extra Professgz;jz u I! ‘Vll . I 
     
     ades under the banner of benefits,the pyramid stretChes ezw.“’ 0 
     
     . equal opportunity and~ out: ,\ ' U . G i { % [A h 
     
     liberty but if Jefferson ~ ;  no. tut mu. 
     
     could see_the state of the 9': $‘uugua‘x‘nx.:¢ 
     
     present-day system ;‘ «M git *.e I, f 
     
     i he would be"spinning in his 3 Ikca .on.e 
     
     . grave". _ 2. 
     
     l Since it became compulsory a 
     
     ' : less than a century ago,public \ 
     
     schooling has servedflwhether . j. ’ A‘ f  7 i a“; " Ii a” '5 I? “A mus ‘ 
     
     I. 
     
     3"“VS 0* sekooiin3 ‘ ' Aggie? “2i 
     
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