人在中卻不自知

 There is no question that at present the university offers a unique combination of circumstances which allows some of its members to criticize the whole of society. It provides time, mobility, access to peers and information, and a certain impunity- privileges not equally available to other segments of the population. But the university provides this freedom only to those who have already been deeply initiated into the consumer society and into the need for some kind of obligatory public schooling. (Illich, 1971)

今日讀到這段有點感想。假設大學所提倡的批判最後會導致大學的滅亡，大學教育當初會否繼續提倡？還是說常聽見的批判思考只可以在某一範圍中活動，而人在中卻不自知。

一路讀著Deschooling Society，就想起最近那些自由主義與馬克思主義的爭論。也就是說大家都認為現行教育制度不好，例如窒礙獨立思考，有人就認為只有放棄強制教育，以其他教育方式代替，但卻有人說留在學校啟發學生就夠了。學校還需要好的老師，但是也一定要清楚這不是對策，也不止於這步。