Education Beyond Dominant Master-Pupil Matrix

Jean-Luc Godard: “be sure you usurped everything that can be said by silence“, a filmmakers advice to avoid the dominance of the in principal non-filmic language of words to enhance the language of image. Paraphrasing and applying this to education: be sure you usurped every opportunity to learn without being instructed. As to educate yourself, a researchers advice to avoid being dominated by the, in principal, stultifying instructions of a teacher to enhance the intelligence cycle of observing-comparing-verifying. But, despite this advice, almost all films are driven by language and not by images And, almost all education is driven by the dominant master-pupil matrix and not by intelligence. The way we educate people in schools is still based on the principles of supplying an effective Fordist workforce. Despite many modifications, the basic hierarchical principle remains that the schoolmaster assesses the quality of the student’s knowledge and not the student him/herself. This erases the individual student’s ability to perceive, to assess, to qualify her/his own observation. Let’s call this, the ability to enhance ones own general intelligence. This is not new. Many people recognize have recognized the technique of repression as a basic principal of the current educational system. Many are […]