thedevitoanditsown:

tiqqun:

Actually, abolish schooling too.

I’m serious. The point should not be to make kinder, gentler, more ~creative~, ~horizontal~, and ~student-centered~ schools – which is basically reformist in spirit and completely compatible with capitalism (why else, for example, do you think rich parents increasingly send their children to private Montessori schools only they can afford?) – but to eliminate the distinction/separation between learning and life that schooling itself creates and maintains.

The reason this suggestion seems so implausible to a lot of people is because it’s also implicitly and radically anti-institution without really saying so. Any type of world where the separation between learning and living has been abolished has probably also removed most other incarnations of liberal institutionalism.