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- American democracy - Fionn May 7, 2023, 1:54 pm
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Posted by Fionn
on May 7, 2023, 1:54 pm
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Sorry, did I say American? I meant a Chinese classroom. This came through to my email the other day from Darren Allen's Expressive Egg subscription. Worth a watch... Democracy in the Classroom I am, along with Thoreau, Wilde, Kierkegaard, Lawrence, Lichtenberg and most actual anarchists, a critic of democracy. I’ll post an old essay on the subject here in due course, for now I direct your attention to this amusing 45 minute documentary on a class election in China. Yes, this is in China, an extremely authoritarian country, within their particularly creepy school system (in which I’ve taught incidentally), and yes, the teacher doesn’t do a particularly good job of making the thing very fair; but I would argue that there is no possible way that any election, or outcome, could be fundamentally different within the civilised system. Take a look and see what you think: |
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