Originally posted by inimalist
There is a fundamental issue with education reform though. It pains me to say, as education was the thing I named as being the way to change the future. The problem is, people's education is not simply "acultural", and the teaching of politics, even at a university level, is never done in such a way that people are encouraged to challange political establishments and institutions they may have identified with already, or even worse, because we experience political discourse through the dimensions set a priori by the state and governing system itself, that predisposes us to interpret political theory from the position of Liberal or Conservative or whatever.My fear would be, in a system that encouraged political organization and what not through only educational reform, that we would see very well educated partisans, who have used thier education to inocculate themselves from possible criticisms of the party rhetoric they had already adopted. It would be like institutionalizing talking-points (which is really all I saw a lot of people getting from their poli-sci degree anyways [who knows, maybe I'm guilty too, I'm sure we all are, this is human psych])
So, how do we fix this problem?