On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt finally shoot off some long-stored Roman Candles, letting their fireworks rain down on an area of community life they’ve spent an inordinate amount of time living inside of: the looking glass of education. As the fourth node of The Golden Square, education is the capstone of these most basic and essential human rights. It’s hard to imagine any human future that’s vital or dynamic without education’s essential place in the foundation of society. The co-hosts will both celebrate this cornerstone of the Golden Square as well lament its capture and brutalization from Neoliberalism's Extermination Matrix. In the last section of the discussion, Matt & Jesse will blast-out their final volleys of Roman Candles by outlining a utopian future and framework for education that all of humanity so richly deserves. And in this slice of imagineering, our guides will assert that education is a right that should be extended from the cradle to the grave.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Stephen Jay Gould: “I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
U.S. Students’ Academic Achievement Still Lags That of Their Peers in Many Other Countries
The 2017 Condition of Education Report
Chart: See 20 Years of Tuition Growth at National Universities
Tuition and Fees and Room and Board over Time, 1976-77 to 2016-17
The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts
Student Loan Debt Statistics 2017
Student Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding
State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Quality and Affordability at Public Colleges
Who Got Rich Off The Student Debt Crisis
Noam Chomsky: The Death of American Universities
Henry A. Giroux - Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times
University of California: State Spending on Corrections and Education
The High Salaries & Lavish Benefits of University Administrators
Benjamin Ginsberg in Washington Monthly: “Administrators Ate My Tuition”
The Utopia Of Rules By David Graeber
Daniel Pink - “Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose”
10 Ultra-Successful Millionaire and Billionaire College Dropouts
Famous Directors Who Never Went to Film School
UC Davis Chancellor Resigns After Pepper-Spray Scandal
Lecture by David Graeber: Resistance In A Time Of Total Bureaucratization
Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms
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