hey gert,
I dint know if this helps you, but in a paper im writing i talk about
School as the center of society in that it homoginizes (or mediates) things
like languages (english, reason, matematics) and history. It is through
this common understanding of techniques that society and intellegence can
exsist. What school also does that i believe it should not is it
homoginizes another group of techniques i call ways of doing. This type of
education is called instruction where one learns the unbendable rules of
rhetoric and such. this form of education continues untill death in
various forms. The instruction manual is the best example, as it makes the
pursuit of quality a static social method rather than free exploration and
it limits the possibility of finding peace of mind in the process. rather
than Art it becomes blind obediance. Its the difference between following
a highway and its signs to where you want to go, getting other clues from
signs about where to stop "and take the pause that refreshes" (Marcuse, in
his highway parable), and doing like Pirsig and just taking to the road
with a map and figuring it all out for yourself. The latter involves
personal interaction with Quality and is therefore benifical in many ways
rather than just the accomplishment of static social goals.
I dont know if you know anything about the frankfurt school, but they play
into this alot. schools role in One dimensional society and what not. I
hope this was a little bit useful atleast.
Elliot
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