Obligatory Sold a Story podcast link.

I can't help but feel that a lot of this is deliberate, the end result of decades of dismantling the public education system to further divide kids into the upper class in private schools, religious fundamentalists in home schooling, and everyone else abandoned to keep the population uneducated and in worse economic precarity.

Somebody please tell me that the kids are alright yea

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    that literacy is what would allow the working class to take over running a society. The issue of illiteracy preventing revolution would therefore be mitigateable by a literate vanguard party that after the revolution set about mass literacy programs.

    • Lucero
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      11 months ago

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